Nginx NGINX + HTTP/2 + SPDY code

Cloudfare released there HTTP/2 + SPDY patch a few days ago.
Interesting if you still need to use both SPDY and HTTP/2 or if you're interested in the way they use it.

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Downside is that Cloudflare still uses Nginx version 1.9.7 with a bunch of patches internally
(see comments in this post) so it should only work with 1.9.7.

"We've (Cloudflare) extracted our changes and they are available as a patch here.
This patch should build cleanly against NGINX 1.9.7.

The patch means that NGINX can be built with both --with-http_v2_module and --with-http_spdy_module.
And it will accept both the spdy and http2 keywords to thelisten directive."

 

Completely agree, you kind of don't have a choise with the market use of Chrome,
but there are legacy browsers on legacy systems who won't support HTTP/2 yet.
Although Google is powerful with there Chrome, there is life after Google.

 

Nginx 1.9.7. is kind of old with security related issues since 1.9.10.
If you want to use SPDY and HTTP/2 you can back-port fixes and patch them into Nginx 1.9.7.
Or use Alibaba's Tengine, rock solid Nginx 1.6.* with back-ported HTTP/2 and SPDY.

 

Hhmm i still have a lot of legacy system visitors.
There are several legacy systems and modern systems who don't support HTTP/2 yet or never will support it.
(Windows 7, Windows 8 IE), Apple, Android with there default browser for example.
The world won't end with Google, there is more then Google.

 

Chrome 51 is rolling out right now.

I'm curious how fast SPDY visitors will disappear.
A quick search on the internet learned me, that there are still a lot of sites using SPDY, HTTP/2 only via NPN (because of OpenSSL <= 1.0.1 etc.) Time will tell.

• To better align with Chrome's release cycle, SPDY and NPN support will be removed with the release of Chrome 51.