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		the_duke 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load bal... H2 still suffers from head of line blocking on unstable connections (like mobile). H3 is supposed to solve that.

wtarreau 12 months ago [–]

Yep. Actually H1/H2/H3 do have the same problem (remember the good old days when everyone was trying to pipeline over H1?), except that H1 generally comes with multiple connections and H3 currently goes over QUIC and it's QUIC that addresses HoL by letting streams progress independently.

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