Re: HTTP/2

[Helmut Eller]

On Fri, Oct 02 2020, Robert Pluim wrote:

>>>>>> On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:55:58 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen
> <larsi@gnus.org> said:
>
>     Lars> Emacs will have to implement HTTP/2 one way or another.  Few
>     Lars> people have
>     Lars> disabled HTTP 1.x on their servers, but it's going to happen, so I'd
>     Lars> rather see HTTP/2 (and HTTP/3?) support in Emacs sooner rather than
>     Lars> later.
>
>     Lars> Not, implementing HTTP/2 in Emacs Lisp sounds like a fun and
>     Lars> interesting
>     Lars> project, but...  it's probably too much fun?  So using an existing
>     Lars> well-supported HTTP/2 library (preferably one that already
>     Lars> uses GnuTLS,
>     Lars> I guess?) is probably the way forward.
>
> libcurl uses nghttp2 for its HTTP/2 support, and it can use GnuTLS, so
> we can steal^winspire our implementation from that.

I'd rather see bindings for libcurl directly.  In particular something
that integrates libcurl's "multi handles" with Emacs' event loop.

Helmut