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Is QUIC specific to HTTP, or can it be used as as transport mechanism for arbitrary protocols?
by jimktrains2 10y ago
Is QUIC specific to HTTP, or can it be used as as transport mechanism for arbitrary protocols?
- niftich 10y agoQUIC stands on its own; it just so happens that QUIC and SPDY (the predecessor of HTTP/2) show some convergent evolution. You could use QUIC to transport other L7 protocols, but tracking down generic-enough implementations may be difficult, or at least was the case in the past [1][2]. Maybe things are better now [3]. [1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/07/20/curl-wants-to-quic/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/07/20/curl-wants-to-quic/ [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17896432/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17896432/ [3] https://github.com/google/proto-quic https://github.com/google/proto-quic