By draining the channel holding received packets, we reduce the number of spurious ACKs we send. We also make sure that sending and receiving packets is balanced, as we allow sending of a large number of packets (if we have cwnd available and the pacing frequency is high enough).
A QUIC implementation in pure Go
quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. It implements the IETF QUIC draft-29 and draft-32.
Version compatibility
Since quic-go is under active development, there's no guarantee that two builds of different commits are interoperable. The QUIC version used in the master branch is just a placeholder, and should not be considered stable.
When using quic-go as a library, please always use a tagged release. Only these releases use the official draft version numbers.
Guides
We currently support Go 1.14+, with Go modules support enabled.
Running tests:
go test ./...
QUIC without HTTP/3
Take a look at this echo example.
Usage
As a server
See the example server. Starting a QUIC server is very similar to the standard lib http in go:
http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir(wwwDir)))
http3.ListenAndServeQUIC("localhost:4242", "/path/to/cert/chain.pem", "/path/to/privkey.pem", nil)
As a client
See the example client. Use a http3.RoundTripper as a Transport in a http.Client.
http.Client{
Transport: &http3.RoundTripper{},
}
Contributing
We are always happy to welcome new contributors! We have a number of self-contained issues that are suitable for first-time contributors, they are tagged with help wanted. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out by opening an issue or leaving a comment.