In this post today I am going to explaining you another GitHub repository i.e. AIOQUIC. It is a python library for QUIC network protocol. AIOQUIC is a library for the QUIC network protocol in Python. It features a minimal TLS 1.3 implementation, a QUIC stack and an HTTP/3 stack.
QUIC standardisation is not finalised yet, but aioquic closely tracks the specification drafts and is regularly tested for interoperability against other QUIC implementations.
Features:
- QUIC stack conforming with RFC 9000
- HTTP/3 stack conforming with draft-ietf-quic-http-34
- minimal TLS 1.3 implementation
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- connection migration and NAT rebinding
- logging TLS traffic secrets
- logging QUIC events in QLOG format
- HTTP/3 server push support
Why should I use aioquic?
aioquic has been designed to be embedded into Python client and server libraries wishing to support QUIC and/or HTTP/3. The goal is to provide a common codebase for Python libraries in the hope of avoiding duplicated effort.
Both the QUIC and the HTTP/3 APIs follow the “bring your own I/O” pattern, leaving actual I/O operations to the API user. This approach has a number of advantages including making the code testable and allowing integration with different concurrency models.
Requirements:
aioquic requires Python 3.6 or better, and the OpenSSL development headers.
Linux:
On Debian/Ubuntu run:
$ sudo apt install libssl-dev python3-dev
On Alpine Linux you will also need the following:
$ sudo apt install bsd-compat-headers libffi-dev
OS X:
On OS X run:
$ brew install openssl
You will need to set some environment variables to link against OpenSSL:
$ export CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include $ export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
Windows:
On Windows the easiest way to install OpenSSL is to use Chocolatey.
> choco install openssl
You will need to set some environment variables to link against OpenSSL:
> $Env:INCLUDE = "C:\Progra~1\OpenSSL-Win64\include" > $Env:LIB = "C:\Progra~1\OpenSSL-Win64\lib"
Running the examples
aioquic comes with a number of examples illustrating various QUIC usecases.
