- Added support for bootstrapping WebSockets via HTTP/2, as described in
RFC 8441. - A new directive 'H2WebSockets on|off' has been added. The feature is
disabled by default for compatibility reasons. - In Apache httpd development trunk (e.g. version 2.5.x) it is possible to use
this with the proxy module to reverse proxy to a backend WebSockets server.
This requires some new internal plumbing code in the server for getting I/O
events on the HTTP/2 stream serving the connection.
This "plumbing" is planned to be ported back into Apache 2.4.58. - For implementors of Apache modules using WebSockets, mod_h2 offers an
optional function that provides an alternative to "older" Apache versions.
See http2_get_pollfd_from_conn, declared in mod_http2.h.