Cloudflare Announces Support for HTTP/3 to Serve the Modern Internet
September 26 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
In concert with Google Chrome and Mozilla
Firefox, Cloudflare is bringing the next-generation protocol to
Internet users, at scale
Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and
reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today
announced support for HTTP/3, the new standard of the web that will
make the Internet faster, more secure, and more reliable, for
everyone. Cloudflare has been collaborating with industry peers,
including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to bring HTTP/3 to the
masses and progress the Internet into the future.
An efficient Internet requires the adoption of common, shared
protocols to allow computers all over the world to communicate with
each other. HTTP is the protocol modern websites, APIs, apps, and
browsers are built on. Older versions of HTTP suffer from problems
that frustrate users operating in real world conditions. HTTP/3,
built on top of QUIC, is designed for the modern Internet. It will
speed up connections and make use of the web more reliable and
secure, especially for mobile devices.
“Pushing forward next-generation protocols is part of our
mission to help build a better Internet,” said Matthew Prince,
co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “Previously, the benefits of
HTTP/3 were limited to the Internet giants like Facebook and
Google. Now, we’re democratizing access to the next generation of
Internet technologies by bringing HTTP/3 to everyone, for
free.”
“In 2015, Cloudflare helped pioneer the widespread use of HTTP/2
and today HTTP/2 is the dominant standard used by millions every
day,” said John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare. “As we roll out
HTTP/3 at scale, we expect millions to use it before the end of the
month and help upgrade the web once again.”
Staying up to date on the latest protocols is vital to get the
most secure and performant Internet experience. Older protocols get
ripped out and replaced, meaning anyone lagging behind eventually
gets cut off. Innovations in the HTTP/3 standard include:
- Encryption by default: Connections are automatically
encrypted with faster connection establishment than the traditional
combination of TCP handshake and TLS negotiation.
- Improved performance: Through the elimination of head of
line blocking, addition of zero round trip time connection
establishment, simplification of loss recovery, and other changes
to make connections more robust, performance will be improved. This
is especially true in the suboptimal network conditions often
experienced by mobile devices.
- Support for network migration: Connections can move
across networks and IP addresses without interruption.
Cloudflare worked closely with the teams at Google Chrome and
Mozilla Firefox, among others, to make HTTP/3 a reality.
“HTTP/3 should make the web better for everyone. The Chrome and
Cloudflare teams have worked together closely to bring HTTP/3 and
QUIC from nascent standards to widely adopted technologies for
improving the web,” said Ryan Hamilton, Staff Software Engineer at
Google. “Strong partnership between industry leaders is what makes
Internet standards innovations possible, and we look forward to our
continued work together.”
“Developing a new network protocol is hard, and getting it right
requires everyone to work together,” said Eric Rescorla, CTO of
Firefox. “Over the past few years, we've been working with
Cloudflare and other industry partners to test TLS 1.3 and now
HTTP/3 and QUIC. Cloudflare's early server-side support for these
protocols has helped us work the interoperability kinks out of our
client-side Firefox implementation. We look forward to advancing
the security and performance of the Internet together.”
All Cloudflare customers can enable HTTP/3 in their dashboard
today, for free. The latest version of Chrome includes support for
HTTP/3 and Firefox support for HTTP/3 is expected soon.
To learn more about Cloudflare’s support of HTTP/3, please check
out the resources below.
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a
mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one
of the world’s largest networks, with nearly 10 percent of the
Fortune 1,000 companies and approximately 18 percent of the top
10,000 websites using at least one Cloudflare product. Cloudflare’s
platform protects and accelerates any Internet application online
without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of
code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web
traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets
smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant
improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other
attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top
Company Cultures 2018 list and ranked among the World's Most
Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019. Headquartered in San
Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL,
New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Washington, D.C., Lisbon, London,
Munich, Beijing, Singapore, and Sydney.
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