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Networks & the Internet

HTTP/2 and HTTP/3: Reinventing the Web's Transport

The verbs and headers of HTTP are the same as 1997, but the transport under them was re-engineered twice. HTTP/2 multiplexes many streams over one TCP connection; HTTP/3 throws out TCP entirely for QUIC over UDP to escape head-of-line blocking.

10 min read·Jul 28, 2026
Networks & the Internet

HTTP and the World Wide Web

The web is one application running on top of the internet's plumbing. HTTP is how a browser asks a server for a resource — a stateless request and response that cookies and the Host header quietly extend into logins and shared hosting.

10 min read·Jul 10, 2026