HTTP is a truly messy protocol, and from what i have seen the proposals for HTTP2 aren't going to make it much simpler, quite the contrary (as the author of Varnish explained here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4253538 ) and don't address some of its fundamental flaws.
I have been thinking for a while about writing down a simple and small subset of HTTP plus some conventions and call it HTTP 0.2, I even got a pre-draft (hah) of what the goals for such a spec would be, maybe i should start to work on it again: http://http02.cat-v.org
I have been thinking for a while about writing down a simple and small subset of HTTP plus some conventions and call it HTTP 0.2, I even got a pre-draft (hah) of what the goals for such a spec would be, maybe i should start to work on it again: http://http02.cat-v.org