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notatoad on Jan 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why HTTPS for Everything?

If you care about client-side latency you should be using HTTP/2. And HTTP/2 is HTTPS-only.

hrbrtglm on Jan 2, 2017 | [–]

HTTP/2 is not HTTPS-only, the browsers implementations may be.

https://http2.github.io/faq/#does-http2-require-encryption

notatoad on Jan 2, 2017 | | [–]

it's HTTPS-only in all browsers that support it. http://caniuse.com/#feat=http2

School-Cotton on Jan 2, 2017 | [–]

Not supported on IE8. Total deal breaker.

HelloNurse on Jan 3, 2017 | [–]

IE8 is not supported, along with Windows XP.

School-Cotton on Jan 3, 2017 | | [–]

so?

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