Google is planning to retire its support for its SPDY open networking protocol in early 2016, in favour of supporting HTTP/2 in Chrome. A blog post by Google multiplexing manager Chris Bentzel and ...

HTTP, the protocol that underpins almost every inch of the world wide web, is about to make the jump from version 1.1 to 2.0 after some 13 years of stagnation. For a long time it looked like Google's ...

Facebook has settled on a networking protocol for speeding up web content delivery. In a W3 mailing list post titled "HTTP2 Expression of Interest," Facebook engineer Doug Beaver outlined why the ...

When it comes to speeding up Web traffic over the Internet, sometimes too much of a good thing may not be such a good thing at all. The Internet Engineering Task Force is putting the final touches on ...

NGNIX, now the third most popular Web server, has just come out with a new commercial release, NGINX Plus Release 3, which promises greater speed than ever. This open-source Web server has long been ...

Nginx will move to the latest version of Google's Web-speedup software with funding from CloudFlare, MaxCDN, and WordPress developer Automattic. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...