HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 have the concept of trailers, that is HTTP headers that can be sent after the message body, in both requests and responses. In HTTP/1.1 trailers can be sent using the chunked transfer coding, for example in requests …
Starting with patch 9.4.3, Jetty will be fully compliant with RFC6265, which presents changes to cookies which may have significant impact for some users. Up until now Jetty has supported Version=1 cookies defined in RFC2109 (and continued in RFC2965) which allows for special/reserved …
Are you an Eclipse Jetty user who enjoys contributing to the open source project and wants to let the rest of the world know? Of course you are! As a thank you to our great community, we’ve had some fancy …
The CometD Project is happy to announce the availability of CometD 3.1.0. CometD 3.1.0 builds on top of the CometD 3.0.x series, bringing improvements and new features. You can find a migration guide at the official CometD documentation site. What’s …
This is going to be a blog of mixed metaphors as I try to explain how we avoid thread starvation when we use Jetty’s eat-what-you-kill[n]The EatWhatYouKill strategy is named after a hunting proverb in the sense that one should only …
I was invited to speak at the JAX conference in Mainz about HTTP/2. Jetty has always been a front-runner when it’s about web protocols: first with WebSocket, then with SPDY and finally with HTTP/2. We believe that HTTP/2 is going …
In the 20th year of Jetty development we are finally considering a bit of native code integration to provide Unix Domain Sockets in Jetty 9.4! Typically the IO performance of pure java has been close enough to native code for …
Now that HTTP/2 is a published standard (RFC 7540) and Jetty-9.3.0 has been released with HTTP/2.0, It’s time to start running this new protocol in your deployments. So let’s look at how you can run HTTP/2 on Google Compute Engine! …
HTTP/2 is now the official RFC 7540, and it’s about time to deploy your website on HTTP/2, to get the numerous benefits that HTTP/2 brings. A very typical deployment is to have Apache (or Nginx) working as a reverse proxy …
Jetty 9.3 supports HTTP/2 as defined by RFC7540 and it is extremely simple to enable and get started using this new protocol that is available in most current browsers. Getting started with Jetty 9.3 Before we can run HTTP/2, we …