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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2013-09-09 23:05:22 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2013-09-10 00:21:27 +0200
commit25c68903756d6b0dc7d5584e958fe0959e7e8305 (patch)
tree8017608f113b6ebbb9c1c461d76c7a50c328cc99 /lib
parenteb6314260de22f4535e512079217c39e7570d18c (diff)
README.http2: explain nghttp2 a little
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diff --git a/lib/README.http2 b/lib/README.http2
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@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ HTTP2 with libcurl
Spec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-06
+ nghttp2 (https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2)
+
+ We're depending on this 3rd party library for the actual low level protocol
+ handling parts. The reason for this is that HTTP2 is much more complex at
+ that layer than HTTP1.1 (which we implement on our own) and that nghttp2 is
+ an already existing and well functional library.
+
Over an http:// URL
If CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION is set to CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2, libcurl will include