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I am often asked why the Internet HTTP community is working on an IETF based QUIC when HTTP/2 (RFC 7540) is less than 2 years old. Th...

About one year ago our friends at Facebook brought an interesting issue to the IETF HTTP Working Group - a lot (20%!) of their transaction...

The Google transport networking crew (QUIC, TCP, etc..) deserve a shout out for identifying and fixing a nearly decade old Linux kernel TCP ...

The best way to make data appear to move faster over the Web is to move less of it and lossless compression has always been a core tenet of ...

Firefox 37 brings more encryption to the web through opportunistic encryption of some http:// based resources. It will be released the week ...

The Internet is chirping loudly today with news that draft-17 of the HTTP/2 specification has been anointed proposed standard. huzzah! Some ...

Next week Firefox 35 will be in general release, and Firefox 37 will be promoted to the Developer Edition channel (aka Firefox Aurora). HT...

HTTP/2 provides a mechanism for a server to push both requests and responses to connected clients. Up to this point we've used that as ...

There have been a bunch of interesting developments over the past few months in Mozilla Platform Networking that will be news to some folks....

I participated for two days last week in the joint W3C/IETF (IAB) workshop on Strengthening the Internet against Pervasive Monitoring (aka S...

Recently the IETF working group on HTTP met in Berlin, Germany and discussed the concept of mandatory to offer TLS for HTTP/2, offered by Ma...

One of the more interesting networking papers I've come across lately is Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression . It deta...