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==Protocol support== Information about what [[Internet protocol]]s the browsers support (in addition to [[HTTP]] that all (modern) browser should and do fully support{{efn|name=Mosaic}}). External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality. More than half of web traffic from Chrome to Google's servers is handled by [[QUIC]] protocol, not [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]] (or HTTP/1). Chrome, Opera, and Firefox have support for QUIC, and [[HTTP/3]], while Safari is testing it for a subset of users. {{sticky header}} {| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center; width: auto;" |- ! style="width:12em" | Browser ! [[HTTP/2]] ! [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]]{{efn|name=External2}} ! [[Network News Transfer Protocol|NNTP]]{{efn|name=External3}} ! [[Transport Layer Security|SSL]] ! [[Extended Validation Certificate|EV]] ! [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] ! [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]] ! [[Internationalized domain name|IDN]] ! [[data URI scheme|data:URI]] ! [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]] ! [[Internet Protocol version 6|IPv6]] ! [[Proxy server|Proxy]] ! [[DNS over HTTPS|DoH]] |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Amaya (web browser)|Amaya]] | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[AOL Explorer]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=IE}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=IEGopher}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Avast Secure Browser]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Basilisk (web browser)|Basilisk]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=NNTP}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=ChatZilla}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=MozIDN}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=firetorrent}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Camino (web browser)|Camino]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Google Chrome|Chrome]] | {{Yes}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mnot.net/blog/2014/01/04/strengthening_http_a_personal_view | title=Strengthening HTTP: A Personal View | date=4 January 2014 | access-date=8 October 2014 | author=Nottingham, Mark}} (section "Enter Snowden")</ref> | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Dillo]] | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=DilloSSL}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} class="table-rh" | [[Microsoft Edge (series of web browsers)|Edge]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[ELinks]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=system-wide}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Falkon]] | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} class="table-rh" | [[Firefox]] | {{Yes}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0/releasenotes/ |title=Firefox Notes (36.0) |publisher=Mozilla |date=24 February 2015 |access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref> | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=NNTP}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=ChatZilla}} | {{Dropped}}{{efn|name=FirefoxGopherDropped|Firefox support for the Gopher protocol was dropped in Firefox 4 (Gecko 1.9.3) per bug 388195.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195|title=bug 388195}}</ref> This and newer versions have full Gopher support when the OverbiteFF extension is installed.}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=MozIDN}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=firetorrent|Possible using third party extensions like FoxTorrent<ref>{{cite web|url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxtorrent/?src=search|title=FoxTorrent|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527213657/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxtorrent/?src=search|archive-date=27 May 2014}}</ref>}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Flock (web browser)|Flock]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=ChatZilla}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Galeon]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[GNOME Web]] | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=system-wide}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[iCab]] | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Internet Explorer]] | {{Yes}}<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/10/08/http-2-the-long-awaited-sequel.aspx | title=HTTP/2: The Long-Awaited Sequel | publisher=Microsoft | date=8 October 2014 | access-date=8 October 2014 | author=Rob Trace, David Walp}}</ref> | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=IE|Support for 256-bit ciphers (AES for example) for SSL/TLS is only available in Windows Vista and above<ref>{{cite web|url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766285.aspx|title=TLS/SSL Cryptographic Enhancements|date=27 February 2008|publisher=[[Microsoft]]|access-date=17 May 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/08_0814_ez_ie8.mspx|title=Windows Internet Explorer 8 Expert Zone Chat (14 August 2008)|date=14 August 2008|publisher=[[Microsoft]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126052125/http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/08_0814_ez_ie8.mspx|archive-date=26 January 2009}}</ref>}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Dropped}}{{efn|name=IEGopher}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=IEdataprotocol|Microsoft has limited support to certain "non-navigable" content, such as in <code><nowiki><img></nowiki></code> tags and CSS rules, for security reasons, including concerns that JavaScript embedded in a data URI may not be interpretable by script filters such as those used by web-based email clients.<ref name="MSDN">{{cite web |url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848897%28VS.85%29.aspx |title=data Protocol |publisher=[[MSDN]] |access-date=5 January 2009 }}</ref>}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Internet Explorer for Mac]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[K-Meleon]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Konqueror]] | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=KonqGopher}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Ladybird (web browser)|Ladybird]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Links (web browser)|Links]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Lynx (web browser)|Lynx]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=system-wide}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Maxthon]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=IE}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=IEGopher}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Mozilla Application Suite|Mozilla]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=MozIDN}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Netscape (web browser)|Netscape]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=ChatZilla}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Netscape Browser]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{depends}}{{efn|name=ns8}} | {{depends}}{{efn|name=ns8}} | {{depends}}{{efn|name=ns8}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Netscape Navigator]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Netscape Navigator 9]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=ChatZilla}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=MozIDN}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[NetSurf]] | {{No}}<!-- still some HTTP/2 support available in a branch: http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/commit/?h=chris/http2 --> | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[OmniWeb]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/FOR_IMMEDIATE_RELEASE_OmniWeb_5.9.2_now_includes_Gopher_support|title=For Immediate Release: OmniWeb 5.9.2 now includes Gopher support!|first=Linda|last=Sharps|date=1 April 2009|publisher=[[OmniGroup]] |access-date=3 April 2009}}</ref> | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] | {{Yes}}<ref name="caniuse-http2"/> | {{Yes}} | {{Dropped}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Dropped}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=OpGopher}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Dropped}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Pale Moon (web browser)|Pale Moon]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=NNTP}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=ChatZilla}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=MozIDN}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=firetorrent}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]] | {{Yes}}<ref name="caniuse-http2">{{Cite web|url=https://caniuse.com/|title=Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc|website=caniuse.com}}</ref> | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[SeaMonkey]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=MozIDN}} | {{Yes}} | style="background:#fdd;"| [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236755#c73 No] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Shiira]] | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Sleipnir (web browser)|Sleipnir]] | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=IE}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=IEGopher}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[surf (web browser)|surf]] | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=no-ui}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=no-ui}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=system-wide}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[WorldWideWeb]] | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[w3m]] | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- class="sortbottom" ! Browser ! [[HTTP/2]] ! [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]]{{efn|name=External2}} ! [[Network News Transfer Protocol|NNTP]]{{efn|name=External3}} ! [[Transport Layer Security|SSL]] ! [[Extended Validation Certificate|EV]] ! [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] ! [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]] ! [[Internationalized domain name|IDN]] ! [[data URI scheme|data:URI]] ! [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]] ! [[Internet Protocol version 6|IPv6]] ! [[Proxy server|Proxy]] ! [[DNS over HTTPS|DoH]] |} {{notelist|refs= {{efn|name=External2|Many browsers have FTP support as read-only and have no upload capitilies. Read-only is marked as yes. For a comparison of clients that support upload opportunities see [[Comparison of FTP client software]].}} {{efn|name=External3|Many browsers have purposely avoided support for e-mail and newsgroups ([[Usenet]]), as these are reserved for their mail-client counterparts. For a comparison of such counterparts see [[comparison of email clients]] and [[Comparison of Usenet newsreaders]].}} <!--IE is declared above because of nested tags--> {{efn|name=Mosaic|Mosaic reached only HTTP 0.9 compliance, and does not support secure communications in any way.}} {{efn|name=ChatZilla|IRC support can be added by installing [[ChatZilla]].}} <!--FirefoxGopherDropped is declared above because of nested tags--> {{efn|name=OpGopher|Includes a proxy capability for gopher support.}} {{efn|name=IEGopher|Internet Explorer 7 has no support of gopher; gopher support is disabled in IE6.}} {{efn|name=MozIDN|For security reasons, IDN domains are displayed as [[punycode]] if they contain certain characters or if the [[top-level domain]] has not been [[whitelist]]ed [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.IDN.blacklist_chars].}} {{efn|name=KonqGopher|Konqueror has full Gopher support when the kgopher KIO plugin is installed.}} {{efn|name=NNTP|[[NNTP]] support can be added by installing the add-on [[infoRSS]].}} {{efn|name=DilloSSL|Dillo has experimental SSL integration that is by standard turned off. {{cite web |url=http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q12 |title=How do I enable the https (SSL) support plugin for dillo? |access-date=12 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509062517/http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q12 |archive-date=9 May 2008 |url-status=dead }} There is no certificate caching and ''no authentication'' performed.}} <!--firetorrent is declared above because of nested tags--> {{efn|name=no-ui|Behavior towards malicious certificates can only be set up in [[compiler|compile time]].}} <!--IEdataprotocol is declared above because of nested ref tags--> {{efn|name=system-wide|Respects system-wide proxy settings.}} {{efn|name=ns8|Depends on the [[Browser engine|layout engine]] which is chosen: Trident or Gecko.}} }}
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