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Regarding the first question:

Even HTTP/2 involves some of the issues the parent mentions. HTTP/2 is not really helpful for large files, and might likely perform worse than HTTP/1.1 due to the additional insertion and parsing of control flow headers. HTTP/2 helps small files most, by avoiding the overhead of connection establishment for those.



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