Http/2 support

[cloudfoundry]

Http/2 support

[sclevine]

I'll re-open this, especially since NGINX supports dynamic modules now.

[jchesterpivotal]

Hi @Wykks

We looked into it a bit and we drew a different conclusion. Nginx does not support HTTP/2 "out of the box". It would require us to compile in a custom module, which is currently marked by the developers as "experimental".

Nginx compiles to a single binary, so we'd be imposing that experimental code on everyone who uses the staticfile buildpack.

Until Nginx fold HTTP/2 into the mainline, or mark the HTTP/2 module as being production-ready, we don't think we can do this. Closing.

[danielraad]

This module is no longer marked as experimental:

http://hg.nginx.org/nginx.org/rev/88228d493640

Would it be possible to reopen this issue?

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[cf-gitbot]

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[dgodd]

@danielraad I'm wondering what your use case is for this? For most CF installations, gorouter will live in front of the app and terminate using HTTP/1.x, and proxy to the app over HTTP/1.x (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/gorouter#http2-support) so in that usecase adding HTTP/2.0 to the app container will not be relevant.

Is there a different usecase that I'm not thinking through?

[danielraad]

@dgodd that was indeed the use case that I was interested in, I didn't realize that gorouter does not support http/2 yet.