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Deprecating SPDY

Jan 18, 2018Max Nystrom
Deprecating SPDY
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This post details the deprecation of the SPDY protocol, which Cloudflare had previously supported to offer performance benefits before HTTP/2 was standardized. It highlights the transition from SPDY to HTTP/2, emphasizing Cloudflare's role in bridging this gap for customers and the subsequent decision to sunset SPDY due to its declining usage and the engineering costs associated with maintaining support for a legacy protocol.

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