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It will also introduce safer ways of browsing. While the group behind the protocol said that it couldn’t build encryption into the protocol, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have already said that in order to use it, websites will have to ensure that their sites are properly encrypted anyhow.
HTTP was introduced in the 1990s as a way of allowing browsers to request information from the servers that host websites. It has been gradually improved since then, but HTTP/2 introduces possibly the major changes since it was first introduced.
Release Date
The adoption speed will determine when you can enjoy the benefits of HTTP/2. Hosting services, search giants such as Google and websites will need to implement HTTP/2 and will do so at different times. The big news is Google have announced their intention to utilize it in Chrome in 2016 – anticipate several others to follow their footprints.