HTTP vs HTTPS -- Test them both yourself

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4 pointssatbyy3 comments

This seems more like a comparison between HTTP and HTTP/2. Am I wrong?

Nope.

"Plaintext HTTP/1.1 is compared against encrypted HTTP/2 HTTPS on a non-caching, nginx server with a direct, non-proxied connection."

some fun SSL history: SSL Acceleration hardware cards!

from the days when a webserver might be a 200 MHz Pentium Pro...