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README.http2: explain nghttp2 a little

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@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ HTTP2 with libcurl
Spec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-06
nghttp2 (https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2)
We're depending on this 3rd party library for the actual low level protocol
handling parts. The reason for this is that HTTP2 is much more complex at
that layer than HTTP1.1 (which we implement on our own) and that nghttp2 is
an already existing and well functional library.
Over an http:// URL
If CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION is set to CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2, libcurl will include