Two days ago I mentioned I was selectively disabling HTTP/1.X on my personal site. Now that I’ve got two days of data, I’m increasingly convinced this is a good setup. The nginx-reported error rate has dropped to near zero. It seems bad actors strongly prefer the older protocols. I wrote up my approach and results for anyone interested.
https://markmcb.com/web/selectively_disabling_http_1/
Mark McBride
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2026-01-22 17:25:34 UTC
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