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by josephagoss 4269 days ago
Will this affect the way we do AJAX requests? Or the speed of them? Or has this no impact on websites talking back to the server? My knowledge of networking at the HTTP level is limited and I am trying to find some context.
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liviu 4269 days ago
From source:

"What does this mean for developers?

HTTP/2 was designed from the beginning to be backwards-compatible with HTTP/1.1. That means developers of HTTP libraries don't have to change APIs, and the developers who use those libraries won't have to change their application code. This is a huge advantage: developers can move forward without spending months bringing previous efforts up to date."

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wolf550e 4269 days ago
The javascript programmer sees no change, but things work faster. Multiplexing allows many requests in parallel to the same server over a single socket, with the requests completing in the order they are ready, not the order they were requested, which should reduce latencies but might lower your effective bandwidth if you only got that bandwidth because your browser opened many separate connections to the server.
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