1The nghttp Instruction
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4This is an implementation of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2 in C.
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6The framing layer of HTTP/2 is implemented as a reusable C library.
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8An HPACK encoder and decoder are available as a public API.
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10-   The nghttp support many different processor, but for the most part you only need the following functions:
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12    **nghttp2_session_callbacks_new**: Initializes \*callbacks_ptr with NULL values
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14    **nghttp2_session_client_new**: Initializes \*session_ptr for client use
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16    **nghttp2_session_callbacks_del**: Frees any resources allocated for callbacks
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18    **nghttp2_submit_settings**: Stores local settings and submits SETTINGS frame
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20    **nghttp2_submit_request**: Submits HEADERS frame and optionally one or more DATA frames
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22    **nghttp2_session_want_read**: Returns nonzero value if session wants to receive data from the remote peer
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24    **nghttp2_session_want_write**: Returns nonzero value if session wants to send data to the remote peer
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26    **nghttp2_session_recv**: Receives frames from the remote peer
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28    **nghttp2_session_send**: Sends pending frames to the remote peer
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30    **nghttp2_session_del**: Frees any resources allocated for session
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32If you are following TLS related RFC, you know that NPN is not the standardized way to negotiate HTTP/2. NPN itself is not even published as RFC.
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34The standard way to negotiate HTTP/2 is ALPN, Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation Extension, defined in RFC 7301.
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36-   The following endpoints are available to try out the nghttp2 implementation:
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38    https://nghttp2.org/ (TLS + ALPN/NPN)
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40    This endpoint supports h2, h2-16, h2-14, spdy/3.1 and http/1.1 via ALPN/NPN and requires TLSv1.2 for HTTP/2 connection.
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42More information about nghttp library can be found at https://nghttp2.org
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44An introductory article on protocol is available on RFC 7540 HTTP/2 and RFC 7541 HPACK - Header Compression for HTTP/2
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