Re: on the long-term viability of http/1.1 as a fall-back option

HTTP/1.0 is still supported...

Mike



On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:

>  Hi all again
>
> another thing that has been bugging me is the number of comments about
> just using http/1.1 in such and such a use case where e.g. crypto is not
> desirable.
>
> IMO this may work in the short term, but as more of the internet moves to
> http/2.0 which hopefully will solve some other security and performance
> issues with the current web, there will be increased pressure to turn off
> http/1.1 in corporate networks if only to minimise risk of continued
> exposure to those issues.
>
> So I don't think relying on indefinite continued availability of http/1.1
> versions or infrastructure is realistic - at least not in the extent to
> which it is currently deployed.
>
> Adrien
>