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| author | Franz Glasner <fzglas.hg@dom66.de> |
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| date | Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:43:07 +0200 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/mupdf-source/thirdparty/curl/docs/HTTP2.md Mon Sep 15 11:43:07 2025 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +HTTP/2 with curl +================ + +[HTTP/2 Spec](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7540.txt) +[http2 explained](https://daniel.haxx.se/http2/) + +Build prerequisites +------------------- + - nghttp2 + - OpenSSL, libressl, BoringSSL, NSS, GnutTLS, mbedTLS, wolfSSL or Schannel + with a new enough version. + +[nghttp2](https://nghttp2.org/) +------------------------------- + +libcurl uses this 3rd party library for the low level protocol handling +parts. The reason for this is that HTTP/2 is much more complex at that layer +than HTTP/1.1 (which we implement on our own) and that nghttp2 is an already +existing and well functional library. + +We require at least version 1.0.0. + +Over an http:// URL +------------------- + +If `CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION` is set to `CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0`, libcurl will +include an upgrade header in the initial request to the host to allow +upgrading to HTTP/2. + +Possibly we can later introduce an option that will cause libcurl to fail if +not possible to upgrade. Possibly we introduce an option that makes libcurl +use HTTP/2 at once over http:// + +Over an https:// URL +-------------------- + +If `CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION` is set to `CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0`, libcurl will use +ALPN (or NPN) to negotiate which protocol to continue with. Possibly introduce +an option that will cause libcurl to fail if not possible to use HTTP/2. + +`CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2TLS` was added in 7.47.0 as a way to ask libcurl to prefer +HTTP/2 for HTTPS but stick to 1.1 by default for plain old HTTP connections. + +ALPN is the TLS extension that HTTP/2 is expected to use. The NPN extension is +for a similar purpose, was made prior to ALPN and is used for SPDY so early +HTTP/2 servers are implemented using NPN before ALPN support is widespread. + +`CURLOPT_SSL_ENABLE_ALPN` and `CURLOPT_SSL_ENABLE_NPN` are offered to allow +applications to explicitly disable ALPN or NPN. + +SSL libs +-------- + +The challenge is the ALPN and NPN support and all our different SSL +backends. You may need a fairly updated SSL library version for it to provide +the necessary TLS features. Right now we support: + + - OpenSSL: ALPN and NPN + - libressl: ALPN and NPN + - BoringSSL: ALPN and NPN + - NSS: ALPN and NPN + - GnuTLS: ALPN + - mbedTLS: ALPN + - Schannel: ALPN + - wolfSSL: ALPN + - Secure Transport: ALPN + +Multiplexing +------------ + +Starting in 7.43.0, libcurl fully supports HTTP/2 multiplexing, which is the +term for doing multiple independent transfers over the same physical TCP +connection. + +To take advantage of multiplexing, you need to use the multi interface and set +`CURLMOPT_PIPELINING` to `CURLPIPE_MULTIPLEX`. With that bit set, libcurl will +attempt to re-use existing HTTP/2 connections and just add a new stream over +that when doing subsequent parallel requests. + +While libcurl sets up a connection to a HTTP server there is a period during +which it doesn't know if it can pipeline or do multiplexing and if you add new +transfers in that period, libcurl will default to start new connections for +those transfers. With the new option `CURLOPT_PIPEWAIT` (added in 7.43.0), you +can ask that a transfer should rather wait and see in case there's a +connection for the same host in progress that might end up being possible to +multiplex on. It favours keeping the number of connections low to the cost of +slightly longer time to first byte transferred. + +Applications +------------ + +We hide HTTP/2's binary nature and convert received HTTP/2 traffic to headers +in HTTP 1.1 style. This allows applications to work unmodified. + +curl tool +--------- + +curl offers the `--http2` command line option to enable use of HTTP/2. + +curl offers the `--http2-prior-knowledge` command line option to enable use of +HTTP/2 without HTTP/1.1 Upgrade. + +Since 7.47.0, the curl tool enables HTTP/2 by default for HTTPS connections. + +curl tool limitations +--------------------- + +The command line tool won't do any HTTP/2 multiplexing even though libcurl +supports it, simply because the curl tool is not written to take advantage of +the libcurl API that's necessary for this (the multi interface). We have an +outstanding TODO item for this and **you** can help us make it happen. + +The command line tool also doesn't support HTTP/2 server push for the same +reason it doesn't do multiplexing: it needs to use the multi interface for +that so that multiplexing is supported. + +HTTP Alternative Services +------------------------- + +Alt-Svc is an extension with a corresponding frame (ALTSVC) in HTTP/2 that +tells the client about an alternative "route" to the same content for the same +origin server that you get the response from. A browser or long-living client +can use that hint to create a new connection asynchronously. For libcurl, we +may introduce a way to bring such clues to the application and/or let a +subsequent request use the alternate route automatically. + +[Detailed in RFC 7838](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7838)
