Baseline (HTTP/2)

Same workload as the HTTP/1.1 baseline — query parameter parsing and sum computation — but over encrypted HTTP/2 connections using TLS and ALPN negotiation.

Connections: 64, 256, 1,024 Concurrent streams per connection: 100

Workload

GET /baseline2?a=1&b=1 sent over HTTP/2 with TLS. The load generator (h2load) opens multiple connections, each multiplexing up to 100 concurrent streams.

What it measures

• HTTP/2 multiplexing efficiency
• TLS handshake and encryption overhead
• How frameworks handle many concurrent streams per connection
• HPACK header compression performance

How it differs from baseline

HTTP/2 uses far fewer connections because each connection multiplexes many streams. The lower connection counts reflect real-world HTTP/2 usage patterns.

Framework requirements

To participate in this test, a framework must:

1. Listen on port 8443 with TLS and HTTP/2 enabled
2. Load TLS certificates from /certs/server.crt and /certs/server.key
3. Handle GET /baseline2?a=N&b=N with the same sum logic as /baseline11
4. Add "baseline-h2" to the tests array in meta.json

Parameters