Tomcat support for HTTP/2.0?

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Asher Johnson picture Asher Johnson · Jun 15, 2015 · Viewed 29.2k times · Source

Does anyone know what is the lowest version of Tomcat that supports HTTP/2.0? I've been looking everywhere on their site and I cannot find any details regarding this.

Answer

sbordet picture sbordet · Jun 16, 2015

I'm the HTTP/2 implementer in Jetty, and I watch out other projects implementing HTTP/2.

Tomcat's Mark Thomas has outlined support for HTTP/2 for Tomcat 9.

Update Jan 2017: Tomcat 8.5 supports HTTP/2 see @joe-aldrich answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/37889873/2027465

Considering that Servlet 4.0 is going to have as a target HTTP/2 support, and that HTTP/2 support requires ALPN support in the JDK (which also I am involved in), and that ALPN support in the JDK is scheduled for JDK 9, it is probably going to be a long time before all that materializes.

However, be aware that other Servlet Containers already provide HTTP/2 support.

Jetty 9.3.0 has full, robust, support for HTTP/2, client and server. We have been running HTTP/2 on our own website for many months now, and we consider HTTP/2 support production ready. Jetty's HTTP/2 Push APIs are being considered for inclusion in Servlet 4.0. HTTP/2 Push is already available to applications deployed to Jetty in a transparent way (via a Servlet Filter).

Undertow also has an implementation for HTTP/2.

Netty also has one, but it's not based on the Servlet APIs.

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