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HTTP2 with libcurl
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Spec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2
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nghttp2 (https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2)
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libcurl uses this 3rd party library for the low level protocol handling
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parts. The reason for this is that HTTP2 is much more complex at that layer
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than HTTP1.1 (which we implement on our own) and that nghttp2 is an already
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existing and well functional library.
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Right now, nghttp2 implements http2 draft-09
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Over an http:// URL
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If CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION is set to CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2, libcurl will include
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an upgrade header in the initial request to the host to allow upgrading to
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http2.
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Possibly we can later introduce an option that will cause libcurl to fail if
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not possible to upgrade. Possibly we introduce an option that makes libcurl
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use http2 at once over http://
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Over an https:// URL
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If CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION is set to CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2, libcurl will use ALPN
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(or NPN) to negotiate which protocol to continue with. Possibly introduce an
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option that will cause libcurl to fail if not possible to use http2.
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Consider options to explicitly disable ALPN and/or NPN.
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SSL libs
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The challange is the ALPN and NPN support and all our different SSL
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backends. Right now we support ALPN and VPN with OpenSSL and ALPN with
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GnuTLS.
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Applications
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We hide http2's binary nature and convert received http2 traffic to headers
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in HTTP 1.1 style. This allows applications to work unmodified.
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curl tool
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curl offers the --http2 command line option to enable use of http2
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To consider:
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- How to tell libcurl when using the multi interface that all or some of the
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handles are allowed to re-use the same physical connection. Can we just
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re-use existing pipelining logic?
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