Hi,


On Mon, Sep 29, 2025, at 10:31, Stefan Eissing wrote:
> 
> 
> > Am 29.09.2025 um 11:14 schrieb Ross Finlayson <[email protected]>:
> > 
> >> 2. Website owners are reluctant to enable HTTP/3.
> > 
> > Or website owners *cannot* enable HTTP/3.  Remember that the Apache web 
> > server - which according to some statistics implements more than 25% of all 
> > websites -  still does not support HTTP/3 (QUIC).
> 
> No one has come forward to do or fund that development. Simple as that.
> 
> Also, I doubt that it would have any influence on the cloudflare use numbers. 
> =)
> 
> And, in addition, if one really wants that, there are several implementations 
> that can do HTTP/3 is a reverse proxy in front of any server.
> 
> I would guess that many small web site owners simply do not care. And many 
> large site owners use a CDN, where all CDNs talk HTTP/1.1 to the origin host 
> exclusively because they have no HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 implementation in the 
> backend. I wonder why they think this is not worth it?

FWIW Cloudflare speak HTTP/2 to origin by default now [1]. The capability to do 
so has been around a few years, I can't recall precisely when it was made 
default.

Cheers
Lucas

[1] 
https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/protocol/http2-to-origin/

> 
> So, I find that Apache argument not convincing.
> 
> - Stefan
> 

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