https://w3c.github.io/webtransport/

WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport
https://w3c.github.io/webtransport/

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WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://w3c.github.io/webtransport/
• Owner: w3c
• License: other
• Created: 2019-04-17T01:08:10.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-22T14:24:47.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-05T04:51:29.470Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Bikeshed
• Homepage: https://w3c.github.io/webtransport/
• Size: 4.48 MB
• Stars: 843
• Watchers: 86
• Forks: 51
• Open Issues: 27
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.md
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Security: security-questionnaire.md

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• awesome-quic - w3c WebTransport - TRANSPORT 就是这样一个协议，向服务器发送数据和从服务器接收数据。它可以像WebSockets一样使用，但支持多流、单向流、无序传输、可靠以及不可靠传输。 (QUIC Weekly - 20201209期)

README

        
# WebTransport

API that allows web applications to establish interactive, bidirectional, multiplexed network connections

It fills gaps in the web platform:

- Lack of UDP-like networking API

- Lack of WebSocket-like API without head-of-line blocking

It provides:

- Reliable streams 

- Unreliable datagrams

- Encryption and congestion control

- An origin-based security model

- Bindings for QUIC

- Multiplexing with existing HTTP/3 connections

- Flexible API that can be extended to other protocols, such as TCP fallback and p2p

- Ability to change transport without changing application code

It's great for:

- sending or receiving high-frequency, small messages that don't need to be reliable (like game state)

- sending or receiving low-latency media

- transferring files

See the [explainer](https://github.com/wicg/web-transport/blob/master/explainer.md) for more info.

See the [proposed spec](https://wicg.github.io/web-transport/).

# Samples

Basic Echo

- Live: https://webrtc.internaut.com/wt/

- Source: https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/tree/main/samples/echo

  

WebCodecs Echo

 - Live: https://webrtc.internaut.com/wc/wtSender10/

 - Source: https://github.com/aboba/wt-demo

 - PR: https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/pull/430