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JEP Draft: Support HTTP/3 in the HttpClient
draft: DRAFT: Support HTTP/3 in the HttpClient Summary Update the HTTP Client to support the HTTP/3 protocol. Goals - Update the implementation of the HttpClient to send and receive HTTP/3 requests and responses.
potentially faster handshakes; removal of head-of-line blocking issues; and more reliable transport, especially in those environments with poor internet connections causing packet loss. limited configuration for tuning the HTTP/3 implementation, for instance by means of JDK-specific system properties, or possibly by small API changes. To figure out whether a server supports HTTP/3, a client would have to either send the first request through HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 and hope to receive an alternate service header or frame, or attempt to initiate a QUIC handshake at the given URL.
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