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Evolution of HTTP

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February 20, 2019
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Evolution of HTTP

Buzzvil

February 20, 2019
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  1. Once Upon a Time TCP/IP Protocol Server Client URI HTML

    URI: Uniform Resource Identifier HTML: HyperText Markup Language
  2. Once Upon a Time TCP/IP Protocol Server Client URI HTML

    HTTP URI: Uniform Resource Identifier HTML: Hypertext Markup Language HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  3. Once Upon a Time TCP/IP Protocol Server Client URI HTML

    HTTP Sir Tim Berners-Lee the father of the World Wide Web URI: Uniform Resource Identifier HTML: Hypertext Markup Language HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  4. HTTP/0.9 (1991) • The initial version of HTTP • Use

    80 port • No version number (later been called 0.9) • Only one method (GET) • No HTTP headers / No error code • Response only contains the HTML file
  5. HTTP/0.9 (1991) • The initial version of HTTP • Use

    80 port • No version number (later been called 0.9) • Only one method (GET) • No HTTP headers / No error code • Response only contains the HTML file
  6. HTTP/0.9 (1991) • The initial version of HTTP • Use

    80 port • No version number (later been called 0.9) • Only one method (GET) • No HTTP headers / No error code • Response only contains the HTML file
  7. HTTP/1.0 (1996) • Version information is now sent • Status

    code, HTTP headers, new methods (POST, HEAD) have been introduced
  8. HTTP/1.0 (1996) • Version information is now sent • Status

    code, HTTP headers, new methods (POST, HEAD) have been introduced
  9. HTTP/1.0 (1996) • Version information is now sent • Status

    code, HTTP headers, new methods (POST, HEAD) have been introduced
  10. HTTP/1.1 (1997) • The first standard • Still in common

    use • Performance optimizations • A persistent connection (keep-alive) • Chunked responses • compression • Cache control • Feature enhancement • Content negotiation (lang, encoding..) • Server collocation (Host header) • New methods • PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS
  11. HTTP/1.1 (1997) • The first standard • Still in common

    use • Performance optimizations • A persistent connection (keep-alive) • Chunked responses • compression • Cache control • Feature enhancement • Content negotiation (lang, encoding..) • Server collocation (Host header) • New methods • PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS
  12. Thanks to Keep-Alive header • Pipelining • Send successive request

    without waiting for the answer over persistent connection • Idempotent methods only (GET, HEAD, PUT, DELETE) • Multiple Connections • Open multiple connections to same host to speed up retrieval of large numbers of objects • Maximum 6 connection for one origin to avoid DoS
  13. HTTP/1.1 is Slow • Latency sensitive • Head-of-line blocking •

    Repetitive and redundant Http request headers • Security makes slower
  14. Security is too Slow • HTTPS (HTTP over SSL, HTTP

    over TLS, HTTP Secure) • Use 443 port TCP/IP HTTP Server Client
  15. Security is too Slow • HTTPS (HTTP over SSL, HTTP

    over TLS, HTTP Secure) • Use 443 port TCP/IP TLS Server Client HTTP
  16. Inlining - Data URI Scheme • Write the image resource

    in Base64 encoded string to reduce # of request
  17. Domain Sharding • Web browser allows several parallel connections for

    one domain • Split resources over several domains
  18. HTTP/2 (2015) • A protocol for low-latency transport of content

    over the World Wide Web • Changes • Textual protocols à binary protocols • Head-of-line blocking à multiplexed and prioritized streams • Concurrent multiple TCP connections à one TCP connection • Redundant HTTP Headers -> Header compression with HPACK • Security -> All browers support HTTP/2 only on TLS • Server Push
  19. Based on the Experimental SPDY Protocol • SPDY: A deprecated

    network protocol developed at for transporting web content TCP/IP TLS HTTP/1.1 TCP/IP TLS SPDY HTTP HTTP/1.1 Stack SPDY Stack TCP/IP TLS HTTP/2 HTTP/2 Stack
  20. Multiplexed and Prioritized Streams on single TCP con. • Frames

    can be interleaved • All stream(sequence of frames)s are sent over single TCP connection • Streams have dependencies and weights to calculate the priorities • DATA frames are subject to per-stream and connection flow control
  21. HTTP/2 and TLS • TLS is optional, but major implementations

    are force TLS • Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome • Why? • To protect user’s privacy • To avoid the tyranny of the middleboxes • They are upgraded much slower than edges TCP/IP TLS HTTP/2 HTTP/2 Stack
  22. TCP is too Old • Introduced in 1974 (45 years

    old) • Designed to operate in wired network WaveLan (1986) Wi-Fi (1997) become popular 2010~
  23. QUIC • An experimental transport layer network protocol introduced by

    in 2012 • TCP + TLS + HTTP/2 over UDP • Flow Control • Error Control • Congestion Control • In-order delivery per stream
  24. QUIC • An experimental transport layer network protocol introduced by

    in 2012 • TCP + TLS + HTTP/2 over UDP • Flow Control • Error Control • Congestion Control • In-order delivery per stream • To Prevent Ossification (경직화)
  25. QUIC • An experimental transport layer network protocol introduced by

    in 2012 • TCP + TLS + HTTP/2 over UDP • Flow Control • Error Control • Congestion Control • In-order delivery per stream • HTTP • Binary Protocol • Multiplexed Streams • Prioritized Streams • One TCP Connection • Header Compression • HPACK à QPACK • Server Push • To Prevent Ossification (골화)
  26. Why UDP? • Middleboxes allow TCP and UDP only •

    TCP has HOL • To move the transport layer from kernel mode to user mode • make development faster • make adoption and spread faster
  27. Implementations • IETF QUIC • C • AppleQUIC, f5, lsquic,

    ngtcp2, ngx_quic, pandora, picoquic, quant, quicly, Winquic • C++ • ats, lsquic, mozquic, mvfst • ETC • Java: kwik, go: minq, quic-go, rust: quiche, quicr, quinn, TypeScript: QUICker • Google QUIC • goquic, libquic, lsquic, quic-go, stellite, caddyserver • https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations
  28. HTTP/3 Challenges • 3-7% something of all QUIC attempts fail

    • Clients need fall back algorithms • CPU intensive (2x ~ 3x) • Lack of APIs of TLS library (OpenSSL) • ARQ limitation • Automatic Repeat Request à Forward error correction may help
  29. Summary • HTTP/0.9 • the first version with one method

    GET in ASCII over TCP • HTTP/1.0 • Many extensions are adopted • One request per one connection • HTTP/1.1 • The first standard version • Persistent connection improved performance, but brought HTTP HOL • Many workarounds have been made over 18 years • HTTP/2 • Binary multiplexed over TCP resolves HTTP HOL ß SPDY • HTTP/3 • Binary over multiplexed QUIC resolve TCP HOL ß QUIC
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  31. References • https://http2.github.io/faq • http://www.httpvshttps.com/ • https://css-tricks.com/http2-real-world-performance-test-analysis/ • http://americanopeople.tistory.com/115 •

    https://hpbn.co/http1x/#concatenation-and-spriting • https://daniel.haxx.se/http2/ • https://daniel.haxx.se/http3-explained/ • https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Evolution_of_HTTP • https://youtu.be/21eFwbb48sE
  32. References • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/393407/why-http-protocol-is- designed-in-plain-text-way • http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Berners-Lee-HTTP- proposal.pdf • http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html •

    HTTP/1.1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068 • HTTP Over TLS: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818 • https://johngrib.github.io/wiki/why-http-80-https-443/ • https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-the-web#h2 • https://medium.com/@DarkDrag0nite/how-http-2-reduces-server-cpu- and-bandwidth-10dbb8458feb
  33. References • https://medium.com/platform-engineer/evolution-of-http-69cfe6531ba0 • https://www.popit.kr/%EB%82%98%EB%A7%8C- %EB%AA%A8%EB%A5%B4%EA%B3%A0-%EC%9E%88%EB%8D%98- http2/ • https://cs291.com/slides/2017/14_http2_quic •

    https://learning.linkedin.com/blog/tech-tips/why-encrypting-your- website-is-now-something-you-need-to-do • https://d2.naver.com/helloworld/140351 • https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/http2/?h l=ko • https://royal.pingdom.com/http2-new-protocol/
  34. References • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r7QXGYOLCh4fcUq0jDdDwKJW NqWK1o4xMtYpKZCJYjM/present?slide=id.p19 • https://hpbn.co/http1x/ • Jeffrey Erman, et

    al., Towards a SPDY’ier Mobile Web?, 2013 • https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Introducing-QUIC- support-for-HTTPS-load-balancing.html • https://deview.kr/2016/schedule#session/178 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c3Rt6QbHDw • https://www.slideshare.net/shigeki_ohtsu/quic-overview • https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/01/21/quic-and-missing-apis/ • New applications above QUIC
  35. References • HTTP/3 is the next coming HTTP version •

    https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/some-notes-about-http3.html • https://blog.codavel.com/2018/09/17/quic-vs-tcptls-and-why-quic-is- not-the-next-big-thing • QUIC: in Theory and Practice - Robin Marx | DeltaV 2018 • https://blog.codavel.com/2018/09/17/quic-vs-tcptls-and-why-quic-is- not-the-next-big-thing • https://github.com/quicwg • https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations