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

[Barry Scott]

On Friday, 7 July 2017 11:59:30 BST Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 06/07/17 03:58, Glyph wrote:
> >> On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:32 AM, Barry Scott <barry.scott at forcepoint.com
> >> <mailto: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]`).
> 
> QUIC is definitely not dead. HTTP/2 is a clear win over HTTP/1 and was
> the easiest first step, but as you've noted there's substantial interest
> in running HTTP/2 over better-than-TCP transport (UDP being the only
> practical alternative in the near term, what with middleboxes being so
> horribly omnipresent).
> 
> As someone else noted, maybe you're thinking of SPDY?

I know abnout SPDY, it is indeed QUIC that I'm researching into.

I read on the ATS (apache traffic server) list that there is a IETF QUIC
being worked on and that ATS is aiming for end 2018 for QUIC support.

Barry

> 
> Ironically the goals of QUIC are, I believe, similar to Vertex ;o)
> 
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