I often hear or see people claim that HTTP is a simple protocol. Primarily of course from people without much experience or familiarity with actual implementations. I think I personally also had thoughts in that style back when I started working with the protocol. After personally having devoted soon three decades on writing client-side code … Continue reading HTTP is not simple →

After personally having devoted soon three decades on writing client-side code doing HTTP and having been involved in the IETF on all the HTTP specs produced since 2008 or so, I think I am in a decent position to give a more expanded view on it. HTTP is not a simple protocol. Far from it. Even if we presume that people actually mean HTTP/1 when they say that.