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SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

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532 points tempaccount420 | 2 comments | 27 Sep 25 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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temp0826 ◴[27 Sep 25 15:22 UTC] No.45396500[source]▶
I don't know why it makes me a little sad that every application layer protocol is being absorbed into http.
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1. xg15 ◴[27 Sep 25 15:41 UTC] No.45396700[source]▶
If this were really the case, it would indeed be sad, as the standard HTTP request/response model is both too restrictive and too overengineered for many usecases.

But both HTTP/2 and QUIC (the "transport layer" of HTTP/3) are so general-purpose that I'm not sure the HTTP part really has a lot of meaning anymore. At least QUIC is relatively openly promoted as an alternative to TCP, with HTTP its primary usecase.

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2. singpolyma3 ◴[27 Sep 25 16:18 UTC] No.45397119[source]▶
Indeed. "Using quic with a handshake that smells like http3" is hardly "using http" imo