While typing in a URL and pressing Enter inside a browser is effortless, there's a lot more going on behind the scenes. In this article, I'll review some of the basics of HTTP and show how they're ...

HTTP/3 breaks from HTTP/2 by adopting the QUIC protocol over TCP. Here's a first look at the new standard and what it means for web developers. It’s no surprise that evolving the vast protocol ...

"Back to Basics" is a new StreamingMedia.com column that will feature articles from various authors attempting to clarify and analyze common—and sometimes commonly misunderstood—topics in the online ...

HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, is getting a big boost today with support added in Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Starting today, Cloudflare announced that ...

The HTTP-over-QUIC experimental protocol will be renamed to HTTP/3 and is expected to become the third official version of the HTTP protocol, officials at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ...

In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet history by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a key technical protocol.

HTTP/2-enabled DDoS attacks are the largest Cloudflare and Google have seen and were launched from a relatively small botnet. Over the past two months attackers have been abusing a feature of the HTTP ...

There are two main HTTP protocols: Version 1.0 and Version 1.1. I could spend an entire article going over the differences between the two. For brevity's sake, the key takeaway is that HTTP 1.1 was ...