The next edition of HTTP, the HTTP 3 protocol just got support from 3 big players – Google, Cloudflare & Mozilla Firefox.
Cloudflare made this announcement on its official blog today. Here’s what it said:
We’ve been working with industry peers through the Internet Engineering Task Force, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to iterate on the HTTP/3 and QUIC standards documents. In parallel with the standards maturing, we’ve also worked on improving support on our network.
So now, the QUIC & HTTP/3 support is available on the Cloudflare Edge network. Which means any Website can with the latest HTTP protocol will be supported on the Cloudflare network. Eventually, all of this means a faster & safer Web.
Cloudflare has said this quoting Ryan Hamilton, Staff Software Engineer at Google, “HTTP/3 should make the Web better for everyone. The Chrome & Cloudflare teams have worked together closely to bring HTTP/3 & QUIC from nascent standards to widely adopted technologies for improving the web. Strong partnership between industry leaders is what makes Internet standards innovations possible, & we look forward to our continued work together.”
Once HTTP/3 support is enabled for your domain in the Cloudflare dashboard, customers can interact with Websites & APIs using HTTP/3.
Starting today, one can also use Chrome Canary to interact with Cloudflare & other servers over HTTP/3. For those of you looking for a command line client, curl also provides support for HTTP/3.
Via: Cloudflare blog
