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Go 1.27 introduces significantly better HTTP/1 connection reuse in the net/http package, delivering nearly 5x faster performance for sequential HTTP/1 requests by avoiding unnecessary new TCP/TLS connection setup costs.

AWS announces Lambda Web Functions, a new form factor that lets developers deploy standard port-listening HTTP servers (Express, Hono, Fastify, Next.js) directly on Lambda with multi-concurrency, active CPU billing, and no adapters, alongside Event Functions and MicroVMs.

Cloudflare announced a closed beta for its new OHTTP Gateway, a self-serve paid add-on that lets customers behind Cloudflare receive Oblivious HTTP traffic while preserving separation of trust, and renamed its existing Privacy Gateway product to Cloudflare OHTTP Relay.

Cloudflare has announced support for the HTTP Vary header, addressing a long-standing caching issue for content-negotiated responses. The author, Simon Willison, discusses the improvement and his alternative approach using URL-based content negotiation.

Cloudflare has shipped support for the HTTP Vary header in their Cache Rules, allowing users to control how caches handle content variations based on request headers.

ArcadeDB has released native drivers for Python and TypeScript over HTTP and gRPC, generated from OpenAPI and Protobuf specifications.

Codes is a library for JVM applications that provides stable outcome identities and explicit mappings for HTTP and gRPC, with zero runtime dependencies.

PicoMQ is a system for durable real-time streams over HTTP, built on S3-compatible object storage, allowing for independent and scalable streams per use case.

The article announces a new feature in curl 8.10.0 that automatically generates a local filename when using the -O option for URLs without explicit filenames, improving command-line usability.

httptap is a Python CLI that dissects HTTP requests into phases like DNS, TCP, TLS, and data transfer to generate detailed waterfall timelines for troubleshooting and performance analysis.

Introducing ntfy: a minimalist open-source HTTP message push tool that sends notifications to your phone/desktop with a single curl command, supporting all platforms, no registration, and self-hosting.

The article proposes a modern email protocol called HMTP built on top of HTTP, replacing SMTP components with existing technologies like WebFinger, ActivityPub, and HPKE to fix design flaws.

This article explains the various HTTP headers sent by a modern Chrome browser, including sec-ch-ua, sec-fetch, and privacy-related headers, and provides historical context.

This Internet-Draft defines the HTTP QUERY method, a safe and idempotent method that allows a request to process enclosed content and respond with the result, similar to POST but without risk of partial state changes.

The article explains the new HTTP QUERY method defined in RFC 10008, which addresses limitations of GET and POST for complex queries by providing a standard, safe, and idempotent method with a request body.

RFC 10008 defines the new HTTP QUERY method, allowing safe, idempotent, and cacheable requests with a body, addressing limitations of GET and POST for RPC-style APIs.

RFC 10008 defines the HTTP QUERY method, a safe and idempotent request method that allows sending a query payload in the request body, bridging the gap between GET and POST for query operations.

NetworkSpy is an HTTP(s) proxy debugger with a custom viewer, aimed at developers for inspecting network traffic.

A technical article comparing three approaches to serving files over HTTP: synchronous thread-per-request, epoll-based asynchronous I/O, and io_uring, with code examples in C.

hey is a lightweight command-line tool for sending load to web applications, supporting HTTP methods, concurrency, and various configurations for performance testing.