Both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 use TCP as their transport. The differences are in the mapping of these semantics to underlying transports. HTTP semantics are consistent across versions: the same request methods, status codes, and message fields are typically applicable to all versions. HTTP/3 runs over QUIC, which is published as RFC 9000. HTTP/3 is the third and upcoming major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the World Wide Web, alongside HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. 'Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 3 (HTTP/3)'.
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