OpenLiteSpeed 1.3.7 and 1.4.4 support HTTP/2

[lsmichael]

Howdy all,

Just posted this to the Google Group, but I think it bears repeating here:

We just released OpenLiteSpeed 1.3.7 and 1.4.4. Both versions support HTTP/2 draft 16. We're very excited about HTTP/2's impending release and will do our best to support it as soon and as fully as possible.

Our HTTP/2 implementation supports ALPN, NPN, and the Upgrade header (for starting HTTP/2 over a non-encrypted connection). At the moment, we do not support server push — we do not believe this will be heavily implemented early on.

Enabling HTTP/2 support is essentially the same as enabling SPDY support: If you're compiling from source, you need OpenSSL 1.0.1 and need to use the --enable-spdy option. (You can also use --enable-http2. Currently, they do the same thing.) If you download from our repository, HTTP/2 support is built in. I will update the documentation to reflect this soon.

This has been a lot of work over the past few weeks. Thank you for bearing with us if we've been a little less communicative than usual.

On to the next step!

Cheers,

Michael

 

[RoldanLT]

So no need to have HTTPS enabled for HTTP/2?
Nice !

 

[Tracy Perry]

Already got a core dump on my Debian install. Going to monitor it and if I get another one I'll email my core dump as it requested last time.

 

[lsmichael]

Already got a core dump on my Debian install. Going to monitor it and if I get another one I'll email my core dump as it requested last time.

Yes, please?

 

[RoldanLT]

On the latest OLS, Can I implement the same caching mechanism as fastcgi_cache of Nginx?
I mean full page caching for the guest only and do not cache login members by detecting cookie without using a xenforo addon?

And also I will ask again

So no need to have HTTPS enabled for HTTP/2?

 

[lsmichael]

Ha. Sorry. I thought you answered your own question. Yes. There is an HTTP/2 Clear Text feature that allows you to upgrade to HTTP/2 without HTTPS.

As for the cache, certainly. This is an example of how to do it with IPBoard: http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php?id=litespeed_wiki:litespeed:cache:ipboard

My understanding of the XF add-on, though, is that it does much the same thing as setting it up yourself, but is easier.

Michael

 

[RoldanLT]

Ah so LiteSpeed Enterprise and OLS works the same?
And also docs for the enterprise is just the same for OLS?
Thanks!

 

[lsmichael]

Yup. Unless otherwise noted, OpenLiteSpeed works the same as Enterprise. (Also, this is noted in the OpenLiteSpeed cache module wiki: http://open.litespeedtech.com/mediawiki/index.php/Help:Modules:Cache#Configuring_using_rewrite_rules )

 

[Tracy Perry]

Anybody else having problems with 1.4.4 and FireFox 35.0.1 not being able to reach their site? I'm about to do a regression back to 1.4.3 to see if that is the problem.

 

[oyang]

Anybody else having problems with 1.4.4 and FireFox 35.0.1 not being able to reach their site? I'm about to do a regression back to 1.4.3 to see if that is the problem.

1.4.X is beta ,,, I try 1.4.4 , but find bugs ,, now I install 1.3.7 ,, this is stable , I think it is stable to make a website with 1.3.7

 

[Tracy Perry]

1.4.X is beta ,,, I try 1.4.4 , but find bugs ,, now I install 1.3.7 ,, this is stable , I think it is stable to make a website with 1.3.7

I'm well aware that 1.4.x line is a BETA version.. and, being a BETA the post was a request to see if the issue was only occurring with MY site or if OTHERS were also having problems with it. The only reason I was aware of it was one of my users left me a comment on my forum about it and that they could user other browsers to access it. I then confirmed said fact from my Windows desktop with the FireFox.

If you are wanting where you don't have (as many) issues, you need to stay with the Stable line (currently 1.3.x).

 

[fireup6]

Hey there! Thanks for the HTTP/2 support, I'm in the process of migrating from my apache2 server to see how much faster i can load with OpenLiteSpeed.

However, i do wish you guys would reconsider not adding push support. For landing pages with no php and just static content, being able to send all the data in one burst without waiting for the requests would dramatically improve performance. For people who are paying lots of PPC money to send visitors to these landing pages, load speed is absolutely critical.

 

[lsmichael]

Hi @fireup6,

Server push is something we'll be looking at in the future, but it's not something we're working on right now. Right now we're working to shore a lot of our internal functions and make sure the current HTTP/2 support is solid.Thanks for letting us know that it's important to you, though. This really helps us figure out where to go next.

Michael

 

[Luis Pavaneli]

Hi Guys

As I check the HTTP2 is working? curl? web external checks?

 

[lsmichael]

Hi Luis,

If you're asking about how HTTP/2 support is doing right now, there are some bugs still, but we're working on improving it. It does support curl. We are working on getting it in line with the h2spec test right now.

Cheers,

Michael