HTTP2 Server Preview

[EmadAlblueshi]

Is HTTP2 still preview?

[pjfanning]

The truth is that we are not actively developing HTTP2. The existing implementation is not receiving many bug reports.
We strongly advise that Pekko HTTP is not exposed directly to the public internet and that you have a commercial load balancer as the public facing consumer. Even having Nginx or another actively maintained OSS load balancer is a good option.
So if you want to enable HTTP2 in Pekko HTTP and only use it for trusted traffic or have a load balancer as middleware then you should be ok.

[pjfanning]

Possibly, we have no releases planned but when we do a Pekko HTTP 1.3.0 release, there is a good chance that we will remove the preview flag.

[raboof]

https://pekko.apache.org/docs/pekko-http/current/security.html#security-model does mention it - is there anything in particular you're missing?

I'm leaning towards declaring http2 support non-preview, perhaps after reviewing whether there's any significant differences with Akka HTTP 10.4.0 once that's reverted to ASL

[EmadAlblueshi]

Possibly, we have no releases planned but when we do a Pekko HTTP 1.3.0 release, there is a good chance that we will remove the preview flag.

That would be great. to get rid of confusion for the end users.

[EmadAlblueshi]

https://pekko.apache.org/docs/pekko-http/current/security.html#security-model does mention it - is there anything in particular you're missing?

I'm leaning towards declaring http2 support non-preview, perhaps after reviewing whether there's any significant differences with Akka HTTP 10.4.0 once that's reverted to ASL

You are right. It's my mistake I didn't fully read those details regarding this!

[pjfanning]

https://pekko.apache.org/docs/pekko-http/current/security.html#security-model does mention it - is there anything in particular you're missing?

I'm leaning towards declaring http2 support non-preview, perhaps after reviewing whether there's any significant differences with Akka HTTP 10.4.0 once that's reverted to ASL

@raboof we forked the code quite close to the 10.4.0 release. We are probably only missing a fairly small number of changes that were made after the BSL license change was committed to git. We can probably check 10.4.0 soon enough anyway because we are fairly close to the 3 year license switch (to Apache license).