[Twisted-Python] COMMERCIAL:Re: WebSockets and QUIC for Twisted

[Barry Scott]

On Thursday, 6 July 2017 03:58:05 BST Glyph wrote:
> > On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:32 AM, Barry Scott <barry.scott at forcepoint.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I am interested in using Twisted with a couple of technologies: WebSockets
> > and QUIC. I'm researching what is already available.
> 
> Why are you interested in QUIC? My understanding was that Google used this
> protocol as an experiment, but HTTP/2 is the successful termination of the
> experiment, and nobody should really be using it.  (For http2 support, `pip
> install twisted[tls,http2]`).

My management is looking to the future and wanted to know if support for QUIC
was in Twisted. We use twisted in our cloud services and may need QUIC support 
if it is adopeted more widely.

> 
> Investigating now I guess I can see
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tsvwg-quic-protocol-02
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tsvwg-quic-protocol-02> suggests that it
> has a future life as a transport for http2?
> > I found the autobahn-python for WebSockets, are there other projects that
> > provide WebSockets that I have missed?
> 
> There's txWS... but autobahn is a lot more current and updated.
> 
> > I could not find references to any projects supporting the QUIC protocol
> > for python. I did find the libquic project. Do you know of any work going
> > on for this protocol for Twisted?
> 
> None that I know of.  Perhaps you could contribute it!

That is a possibility.

Barry

> 
> -glyph