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With the exponential growth of internet usage, based on user's demand there is a need for faster processing of requests with available bandwidth. The HTTP/1.1 protocol is a widely adapted communication protocol in the internet platform. Its frame structure makes it compact with website configuration. Considering the popularity of the HTTP/1.1, the upgraded version HTTP/2 protocol was found to have improved utilization of TCP with basic functionality of HTTP. The security for TCP is enhanced in the network by adding a TLS credential. By the concept of multiplexing, the HTTP/2 protocol can withstand payload overload. Hence HTTP/2 protocol provides a way of solving the traffic overload in the Internet Protocol layer caused due to flooding of packets. Here, the experiment is conducted on HTTP/2 server parameters such as connection time to the webpage from the server, the response-reply gap between server and clients, latency for a response from the server, inter-packet arrival time at the server and webpage load time. A slow-rate DoS attack called Slowloris was launched in the network supporting HTTP/2 protocol. With the analyzed server parameters a threshold value is set for detecting and terminating attacker from the network. The results showed that with the launched attack over a network, HTTP/2 protocol is proved to be faster compared to the lower versions of HTTP.