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I'd say Http1.1 is good enough for most people, especially with persistent connections. Http2 is an exponential leap in complexity, and burdensome/error-prone for clients to implement.


The day they come for HTTP/1.1 is the day I die on a hill.


Yeah I imagine 1 + 3 being popular. 1.1 is so simple to implement and WebTransport / QUIC is basically a teeny VPN connection.




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