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title: A QUIC History of HTTP
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2019/program/proposals/615
beginning: '2019-11-16T15:45:00.000-08:00'
end: '2019-11-16T16:05:00.000-08:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: quic_20200110
presenters:
- name: Bri Hatch
  affiliation: ExtraHop Networks
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/68
  gravatar_id: e22b6ff68fa96ae5b60c4ad7f15ad77f
  biography: Bri Hatch is Director of IT at ExtraHop Networks, and Chief Hacker at
    Onsight, Inc. An adamant Open Source advocate and security buff, Bri is the author
    of Hacking Linux Exposed, Building Linux VPNs, and numerous online articles on
    the topics of Linux, security, and coding. He has been securing and breaking into
    systems since before he traded in his Apple II+ for his first Unix system.
---

HTTP, first defined in 1991, has undergone radical change since it was created by Tim Berners-Lee in the days of dialup. We'll cover the notable problems and improvements from 0.9 up to the proposed HTTP/3 which sheds TCP entirely and implements a secure and highly performant TLS-over-UDP protocol known as QUIC.

No prior knowledge of HTTP or networking is required, but even those comfortable writing web requests at the command line will learn a thing or two.
