HTTP/2, the second and the latest version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP), the basis data communication for the World Wide Web, is going to be adopted by Google, specifically in Chrome, for providing a faster web experience.
HTTP/2 is yet to be standardized but Google plans to introduce it in Chrome 40, which is coming up soon and in the process, will give up on the homegrown SPDY protocol(abbreviation of 'speedy'), which forced SSL encryption for all sites and speeding up page loads.
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Other web browsers will soon be ditching the SPDY protocol in favour of HTTP/2.
Support for SPDY will be completely stopped by 2016.
The company's official statement:
HTTP/2’s primary changes from HTTP/1.1 focus on improved performance. Some key features such as multiplexing, header compression, prioritization and protocol negotiation evolved from work done in an earlier open, but non-standard protocol named SPDY. Chrome has supported SPDY since Chrome 6, but since most of the benefits are present in HTTP/2, it’s time to say goodbye.