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Re: [Bug-wget] About GSoC project: Support QUIC Protocol


From: Daniel Stenberg
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] About GSoC project: Support QUIC Protocol
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 23:21:24 +0100 (CET)
User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07)

On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Jay Bhavsar wrote:

I am considering to apply for "Support QUIC Protocol". I have read this <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJvyZflAO2pq77yOLbp9NsGjC1CHetAXV8I0fQe-B_U/edit> specification, and understood most of it.

Hi Jay,

The QUIC protocol of the future is the one that is being standardized by the IETF *right now* and is planned to get done by the end of this year. Adding support for Google's old (current) version of QUIC has much less value for the future (in my opinion).

The current working drafts for the protocol are here:

 https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/quic/documents/

But you should of course base any QUIC work for wget on a QUIC library. You'll find existing implementations listed here:

 https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations

I think all the requests should use TCP by default unless explicitly told
to use QUIC by some flag. If we get  "Alternate-Protocol: 123:quic"

The Alt-Svc header tells the client that the service exists somewhere else, possibly using another protocol (like HTTP-over-quic, hq), so yes.

in response header we should inform the user, close TCP connection and use QUIC instead.

*Ideally* you'd try to setup the QUIC connection in the background or in parallel since it may not work and then it is a good idea to keep using the initial TCP connection...

It isn't specified formally on wiki page, but I think we should be able to communicate with HTTP using QUIC protocol. Is there something more to it?

You might learn that the implementations are not yet 100% there, so speaking full HTTP over QUIC is a bit shaky but should be in a better shape by the summer. (Most implementations so far have stuck to "HTTP/0.9" over QUIC for simplicity and early interop, but this situation will of course not last.)

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 / daniel.haxx.se



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