HTTP/2

If your server provides the mod_http2 module, swift apache will automatically pick it up, configure a development SSL certificate and the HTTP/2 module.

Check whether HTTP/2 is available

To check whether mod_swift did detect the HTTP/2 module successfully, you can run:

$ swift apache validate
The Swift Apache build environment looks sound.

  srcroot:   /Users/helge/tmp/tests/mods_helloworld
  module:    mods_helloworld
  config:    debug
  product:   /Users/helge/tmp/tests/mods_helloworld/.build/mods_helloworld.so
  apxs:      /usr/local/bin/apxs
  mod_swift: /usr/local/opt/mod_swift
  swift:     3.0.2
  cert:      self-signed-mod_swift-localhost-server.crt
  http/2:    yes

Look for the last line and check whether it says yes.

Install the Homebrew Apache w/ HTTP/2

Before you install mod_swift, we highly recommend that you install or reinstall the Homebrew Apache w/ HTTP/2 and the MPM event module:

brew reinstall httpd --with-mpm-event --with-http2

You can also add --with-privileged-ports if you want to use such.

Useful tools

Chrome Developer Tools

You can use the Network tab in the Chrome Developer Tools to check whether requests are done using HTTP/2. Right click the table view and select 'Protocol'.

curl w/ HTTP/2 support

On Homebrew you can easily install curl with HTTP/2 support:

brew reinstall curl --with-nghttp2 --with-openssl

IMPORTANT: curl is Cellar only w/ Homebrew. To invoke it either adjust your PATH to include /use/local/opt/curl/bin or invoke curl with the full path:

/usr/local/opt/curl/bin/curl -v --insecure --http2 https://localhost:8442/hello

(--insecure is needed if you use it w/ the self-signed certificate coming w/ mod_swift)

You can scan the output of curl to see whether it is actually using HTTP/2:

...
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
...
* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
...
> GET /hello HTTP/2
...
< HTTP/2 200
...

Links

• how to h2 in apache