Learning HTTP/2: A Practical Guide for Beginners

well done. recommended.

Excellent

This is a short book - only about 100 pages. You can probably read through it in a day, although the author assumes you have a pretty strong background in HTTP already. This book is specifically written as a jump-start for somebody who's familiar with HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 who's interested in understanding the new HTTP/2 protocol. If that's you, this book will be exactly what you're looking for. In fact, I appreciated that the author didn't spend pages and pages reviewing the TCP/IP stack and the HTTP/1.1 protocol - although there's a very brief refresher on HTTP, he jumps right into the details of how the new protocol. What page count he does dedicate to HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 is mostly spent reviewing the problems with the old protocol that HTTP/2 was designed to fix - which does a perfect job of setting the stage for the rest of the book.

Learning HTTP/2 is a relatively short primer that gives a broad overview of the emerging HTTP/2 protocol. Although HTTP/2 is something that most of us are using every day without knowing it, understanding how it works can definitely be of aid to server, browser and website developers, among others.For those of you who regularly work with HTML in the way of content management systems like Wordpress, or even write your HTML from scratch, there probably is not enough information in this book to help you make any implementations in your website or in your design, practically speaking. This is definitely not a how-to book. It concentrates more on the history of the HTTP protocol, it's ongoing development and the primary differences between versions 1 and 2.For server administrators and developers this book delves into the additional capabilities that HTTP/2 provides and takes a jab at trying to answer the question, "Will HTTP/2 make my web server and websites run faster?" The answer to this question seems to come down to a resounding "it depends". A number of performance monitoring and debugging options for measuring your website's performance are explored, but you don't really come-away from reading the book thinking that HTTP/2 is some sort of magic bullet to improve performance. Obviously, this is not the fault of the authors. They are simply passing along very reasonable expectations given the vast complexity of different hosting and website viewer situations.For those of you who know little to nothing about HTTP/2, but do already know something about how HTTP servers and browsers work, this is an excellent starting point for understanding both the benefits and limitations of the latest upgrade to the HTTP protocol. It's brief 130 pages is a quick read and gives you a good, general idea of the ways the protocol has been updated and where it is probably headed in the future. The data is presented in a rather dry manner, but is most certainly more entertaining than sifting through pages of RFCs. If you still want to get into all of the really gory details, this book points you in that direction though.

This is a very interesting guide when you want to look into the introduction of HTTP/2. It starts at an actual beginning, noting the how and why to many a thing, and it also discusses history, different forms leading to this, as well as terminology and why these things are important. There is a who should/shouldn't read this at the beginning of the book as well (you can see this in the free preview), and I think this helps to note who would or wouldn't benefit here. Basically, it works best for the novice and for folks trying to acquaint themselves to the ideas here, but it is not meant for those wanting comprehensive information on items like debugging or the like.

This book give a great overview of HTTP/2 and helped me to understand what problems it addresses over HTTP 1/1.1. I'd actually recommend it as a good starter book for anybody wanting to better understand how HTTP/2 works. I've done web development for years and this dives a bit deeper giving me a better understanding of why I should care about HTTP/2.

Very readable book which explains the history of HTTP, the issues with HTTP 1.1 and how HTTP 2 addresses them. Although this book is quite technical, it remains very readable with quite clear explanations (for someone already familiar with HTTP).As the authors say, this book is not a comprehensive guide but it is an excellent introduction and should be all anyone needs to understand except for experts specializing in knowing the details of HTTP 2.This book is relatively short with only 130 very readable pages. Good coverage of the topic.

So I bought this as I'm a software dev, building web apps, utilising HTTP. I have come across various "rules" for the HTTP protocol such as if you issue a Create (201) request you should also set the Location header. This sort of thing was mentioned but mainly in passing the few.I also purchased "Restful Web APIs" so hoping that covers more of the HTTP requirements for REST APIs since a number of the chapters/sub headings are almost identical, so perhaps its a better resource.

Excellent book for getting started with HTTP/2. Concise book that you can finish it over a weekend. Lots of tips on performance fine-tuning, and lots of referrals of good tools.

O'Reilly (partially?) move to print-on-demand. The print quality of this book is bad, especially all the figures and symbols. Usually, I buy books, because I don't like to read on my laptop screen, but this book is even worse.

Book is nice, but highly overpriced for what it has to offer. Moreover it's few years old, so misses out on few things. Http push has now been removed from http2. So book is not current also