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Varnish HTTP/2 with SSL/TLS offloading on H2O

Varnish is a popular reverse proxy which is used to accelerate page loading by caching copies as static HTML. Varnish does not support SSL/TLS, which is in practise required to take use of the new HTTP/2 protocol. This …


eZ Platform: A CMS built with the Symfony Framework

eZ Platform is the Open Source Content Management Platform from eZ Systems. Previously known as eZ Publish, the first version of the new product was launched in December 2015. Thanks to the Symfony Full Stack approach i…


HTTP/2 Server Push (with PHP and the Symfony HttpKernel)

HTTP/2 supports a feature called Server Push. This allows the server to send stylesheets, javascript and other assets to client browsers without separate requests. Traditionally HTML documents contain references to vari…


Symfony and Asset Management

The Standard Edition of the Symfony2 Framework has relied on a PHP asset management framework called Assetic. It has been around for quite a few years now and continues to serve static assets such as packaged CSS and Ja…



Comparing HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 on Aircraft WiFi

HTTP/2 brings great lower level enhancements to performance of the ubiquitous protocol. With servers such as H2O, Apache and now Nginx supporting it it'll be widespread soon. While pipelining and other features boost…