HTTP/3 benefits from the features of the UDP protocol and defi | Nikita Shpilevoy | About IT, AI, etc

HTTP/3 benefits from the features of the UDP protocol and defines many of the new features that were in previous HTTP versions on the TCP layer. This allows to remove the limitations existing within the Internet’s infrastructure.

While HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 used TCP on the transport layer, HTTP/3 uses QUIC, aiming to solve one of the main problems of HTTP/2 regarding the linear progression of the downloads.