[richardwhiuk]

But the other point is that https now means HTTP/2 or HTTP/1.1, where as http always mean HTTP/1.1 - so I'm not sure that's true.

[tedunangst]

If https can mean one of two things, but http2 clearly means only one thing, why would anybody choose to use the term https unless they are trying to be deceptive?

[c22]

Or of they're trying to refer to the thing that http2 is not?

[falcolas]

https and HTTP/2 are not the same thing, though. Until HTTP/2 traffic is the vast majority when compared to HTTP/1.1 with TLS, you can't claim https and HTTP/2 are the same.

For example, if you terminate your secure traffic on an AWS ELB (or using S3, or CloudFront), you are serving HTTP/1.1 with TLS. And will be for the foreseeable future.

[jimktrains2]

Can you point me to the RFC where https was redefined to not be HTTP/1.1 over TLS?

[richardwhiuk]

https was never defined in an RFC in the first place, as I understand it, it's just defacto used for that since Netscape started.