Nginx Nginx - Support for HTTP/2 Server Push

Just a few hours ago, CloudFlare announced there support for HTTP/2 Server Push.

Seems as CloudFlare is using there own HTTP/2 Server Push module.
As Nginx won't support it upstream. (CloudFlare is using a kind of Nginx mix (cloudflare-nginx)?)

Does anyone have more information about HTTP/2 Server Push and Nginx?
HTTP/2 Server Push and Nginx could speedup a site a lot, so I want to start as soon as possible.

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Thanks,

 

I don't think that Cloudflare would contribute such a high profile feature to the Nginx project. (If it is indeed a nginx module)
It is too valuable for them and for their benefit compared to competitors in the same market.
Cloudfare's contribution to Nginx is primarily on Nginx and LUA CloudFlare Open Source

In addition also don't expect a HTTP/2 Server Push from the Nginx team in the near feature.

Owen Garrett Head of Products at Nginx wrote:
'Server Push is a non-essential, optional part of an HTTP/2 implementation. We're considering it for a future release.'

Maybe it will be release for their paid version only ?, that paid version differs more and more compared to the free version (feature wise) which is not good if you ask me.

For myself: Server Push IMHO is one of the most exciting features of HTTP/2.

 

Thanks eva2000 for your testing work.

Serverpush HTTP 2.0 enables the server to send multiple responses (in parallel) for a single client request.
And Pagespeed speeds up your site and reduces page load time by automatically applying web performance best practices to pages and associated assets.

Seems to me as 2 different strategies in order to optimize a website. I.e. to speed up the webserver (Server Push) or optimizing existing website sources.
What's your opinion on this?

 

John Graham-Cumming from Cloudflare wrote: We modified NGINX to support HTTP/2 Server Push.
@eva2000 could you ask them for their HTTP/2 Server Push patch?

Hopefully they make it open source, I don't think so but you never know.

 

It is indeed an unique selling point to me.
But you could always ask: )

Nevertheless, I think it's weird, this difference between Cloudflare and Nginx about the same push module but with a whole different priority.

Nginx.org is acting weird and strangely since the creation of there profit Nginx.com club.
Varnish, the company which address there profit and non profit much more subtle.
Nginx can learn a lot from these guys.

 

Hmm yes and no if you ask me.
Cloudflare is a company right from the start.
Nginx is not.

A familiar story, a free open source program gets fame, they start up a commercial company with investors.

Investors want profit so right from the beginning,
they start to develop modules and functions only for the paid version.

They don't give a rats ass about the open source community, partly as a result of open source which they have become so popular.

 

Help fund development? 10 whole years Nginx cloud live without dying from not getting any lunch.
I don't believe in a sudden dire need.

Since there commercial department, they added fewer and fewer interesting features to the Nginx.org version .Everything that is interesting, has been paid.
It has gone from a communist lunch to a capitalistic lunch continued with more than 50 $ million investments in Nginx.com. Its all about the money.

+ They never added features from plus to open source in the past. Nor they will in the feature if you ask me.