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Discussion on: Networking Essentials: Content Distribution

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Sebastiaan Deckers

Nice post!

There is no HTTP 2.1 version. There is a version 2.0 but its exchanges are encoded differently from the newline separated 1.1 requests & responses. Might be interesting to mention HTTP/2 pseudo-header fields (:path, :authority, ...) and ALPN protocol identifiers.

Also note that root/bare/apex domains (e.g. example.com) can not return CNAME responses. A CDN using Geo DNS would typically require a subdomain like www.example.com in order to provide Geo DNS based routing.

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swyx

insanely great catches. i will correct my article. thank you so much, Sebastian. super appreciated since im just learning this stuff and am no authority.