iOS Push Notification with HTTP2

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Setup iOS APNS with HTTP/2

Overview:

There're one issue while sending iOS notification to multiple devices with old method (send by ftp write stream). Let say you send to 100 devices, ftp write work likes this:

1. connect to APNS Server
2. for each device: send notification by using device_token & payload
3. disconnect

In step 2, if there're 1 invalid token (there're many reason make a token invalid: expired, wrong cert, wrong format...etc) the connection will be block without status from APNS Server, if you want to check the status, you have to wait at least 0.5s-1s and using ftp-read to read the status. It's mean you have to check status after every ftp-write and re-connect again if there're an invalid token. 
So, to send to 100 devices, you need 50 seconds, that's too long.

At WWDC 2015, Apple has introduce a  new notification api by using HTTP/2
This api allow you to send notification as a post request or curl and get the result immediately, if 1 token is invalid, it's just simple cannot send, there're no connect & disconnect problem.


References:


1. Requirements:

Unfortunately, to using new APNS, you need to update these things: 
+ openssl >= v1.0.2
+ curl >= 7.46.0 and build with support http2

+ apache2 > 2.4.10 (might get "client preface string missing or corrupt" if apache2 is old version) 


2. Setup server:


+ recommend install ubuntu 16.04 which already have apache and openssl updated
# Get build requirements
# Some of these are used for the Python bindings
# this package also installs
sudo apt-get install g++ make binutils autoconf automake autotools-dev libtool pkg-config \
  zlib1g-dev libcunit1-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libev-dev libevent-dev libjansson-dev \
  libjemalloc-dev cython python3-dev python-setuptools

# Build nghttp2 from source
git clone https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2.git
cd nghttp2
autoreconf -i
automake
autoconf
./configure
make
sudo make install

# build newest curl
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.46.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf curl-7.46.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.46.0
./configure --with-nghttp2=/usr/local --with-ssl
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

#test
curl --http2 -I nghttp2.org 


3. Test send push notification with curl


+ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34684099/new-apns-provider-api-and-php
+ script:
curl -d '{"aps":{"alert":"hi","sound":"default"}}' \
--cert <your-certificate.pem>:<certificate-password> \
-H "apns-topic: <your-app-bundle-id>" \
--http2  \
https://api.development.push.apple.com/3/device/<device-token>

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