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HTTP/2 compatibility with old/ unsupported browsers


How does a website behave on a client that does not support the HTTP/2 protocol?
Is there a backward compatibility of the server that the server falls back on HTTP/1?


Solution

  • Standard webservers will handle HTTP 1.x requests just fine and reply with HTTP 1.x responses. There are just too many browsers out there that don't speak HTTP/2 yet to completely drop HTTP 1.x support from a server.