I have a Python REST service and I want to serve it using HTTP2. My current server setup is nginx -> Gunicorn. In other words, nginx (port 443 and 80 that redirects to port 443) is running as a reverse proxy and forwards requests to Gunicorn (port 8000, no SSL). nginx is running in HTTP2 mode and I can verify that by using chrome and inspecting the 'protocol' column after sending a simple GET to the server. However, Gunicorn reports that the requests it receives are HTTP1.0. Also, I coulnt't find it in this list: https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/wiki/Implementations So, my questions are: Is it possible to serve a Python (Flask) application with HTTP2? If yes, which servers support it? In my case (one reverse proxy server and one serving the actual API), which server has to support HTTP2? The reason I want to use HTTP2 is because in some cases I need to perform thousands of requests all together and I was interested to see if the multiplexed requests feature of HTTP2 can speed things up. With HTTP1.0 and Python Requests as the client, each request takes ~80ms which is unacceptable. The other solution would be to just bulk/batch my REST resources and send multiple with a single requests. Yes, this idea sounds just fine, but I am really interested to see if HTTP2 could speed things up. Finally, I should mention that for the client side I use Python Requests with the Hyper http2 adapter. Continue reading...
