HTTP/2 support in Tomcat 8

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Guillaume D. picture Guillaume D. · Mar 31, 2015 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

After some research, I was surprised that I did not not find any resource on HTTP/2 support in Tomcat. Changelogs of 8.0 indicate an experimental support of SPDY and wiki refers to HTTP/2 as a supported spec (http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Specifications) but I don't find any tutorial on it.

Do you know if it is already possible to enable HTTP/2 on Tomcat? If the answer is yes how I can do that?

Answer

Mark Thomas picture Mark Thomas · Apr 1, 2015

Tomcat does not yet support HTTP/2.

HTTP/2 support is planned for Tomcat 9 onwards. It may get back-ported to earlier versions.

The experimental SPDY support was just that: experimental. It worked while the browsers supported the particular version of SPDY but no browser currently supports the version of SDPY implemented by Tomcat.

That experimental support of SPDY has been removed from Tomcat 8.0.22, noted in the changelog.

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