{"id":1585,"date":"2020-06-07T22:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1585"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:04:44","slug":"why-are-the-http-2-is-only-enabled-by-default","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/why-are-the-http-2-is-only-enabled-by-default","title":{"rendered":"Why are the HTTP\/2 is only enabled by default?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS025_IiG8prn5cbtz9ImrU0m746kf9gvpcsw&amp;s\" alt=\"HTTP\/2\" width=\"341\" height=\"148\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Why are the HTTP\/2 is only enabled by default?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>HTTP\/2 is based on SPDY and is the second major revision of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/docs\/en\/ztpf\/1.1.2023?topic=clients-hypertext-transfer-protocol-client\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hypertext Transfer Protocol<\/a>, the application protocol for the Word Wide Web. SPDY is an open networking protocol developed primarily at Google. SPDY also for transporting web content. In addition, it is help to make the web pages loading faster and reduce latency.<\/p>\n<p>However, SPDY is enabled by default for all customers that using the SSL on their site through Cloudflare.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"word\">After that ,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">HTTP\/2\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">is\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">only\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">enabled\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">by\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">default\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">for\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">Free\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">Pro\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">plan\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">customers. Therefore,<\/span><span class=\"word\">\u00a0for\u00a0all\u00a0other\u00a0customers\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">must\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">be\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">allow\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">under\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">\u201cNetwork\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">request.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Please refer to the following article to know more.<br \/>\nKnowledge Base: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/can-i-disable-the-http-2-for-my-website\">Can I disable the HTTP\/2 for my website?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are the HTTP\/2 is only enabled by default? HTTP\/2 is based on SPDY and is the second major revision of the\u00a0Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the application protocol for the Word Wide Web. SPDY is an open networking protocol developed primarily at Google. SPDY also for transporting web content. In addition, it is help to make the web pages loading faster&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1428],"class_list":["post-1585","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-http-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6030,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1585\/revisions\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}