Your Chrome browser might not be using HTTP anymore

Tim Berners-Lee rightfully deserves all the credit for his early work around URI, HTTP and HTML. His efforts ultimately led to the official HTTP 1.0 (RFC 1945) specification in 1996, the HTTP 1.1 proposal (RFC 2068) in 1997 and consequently the official HTTP 1.1 spec (RFC 2616) in 1999. The web as we know it wouldn’t exist without these protocols. However, more then a decade has passed, we now have billions of users online, our web apps have grown by orders of magnitude in both size and complexity, and the HTTP specification is starting to show its age. Google’s Chrome browser dropped the “http://” prefix in their location bar about a year ago, and as it turns out… Read more