HTTP/2 support in Apache 2.4

Mark Felder feld at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 1 18:54:44 UTC 2015



On Tue, Sep 1, 2015, at 13:19, Bernard Spil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After koobs pointed out to me that my server didn't support HTTP/2 I 
> decided to investigate what it'd take to implement.
> 
> In Apache httpd 2.5 the mod_h2 module has already been imported and it 
> is also possible to build it with 2.4 so I decided to see if I could get 
> this to work. I succeeded and ended up with a new mod_h2 port, a set of 
> patches and some questions:
>    1. What to name the port (www/mod_h2, www/mod_h2-devel?)
>    2. Do we want/need to have this as a port
>    3. How to manage the patch required for the apache24 port 
> (extra-patch, ...)
>    4. How to get this to the project (bugzilla? bugzilla?)
> 
> One snag already, php-session seems to fail. Other than that it seems to 
> be fine with apache24-2.4.16_1 and libressl-2.2.3.
> 
> Any and all feedback is appreciated (even negative)
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Bernard Spil.
>

You've now got me on a hunt for the email I came across around the last
Apache 2.4 release that mentioned that Apache 2.4 is expected to have
HTTP2 before the end of year...


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