This is a very simple GOLANG web server that hosts the same content via 4 protocols:
- http1.1 (port 8080)
- http1.1 + tls (port 8081)
- http2 (port 8082)
- QUIC (port 8083)
It can be used to show large-scale differences in protocol performance (e. g. quic is a lot faster when >1% packets are lost).
It is not at all suitable for benchmarking because atm no open-source quic implementation is optimised for performance (neither client nor server).
To run this server you will have to put relevant certificates in a folder specified in getSslFiles() (todo: accept cert paths as args) and install all dependencies for this app (go get ./...).
Two html pages were made to showcase protocol differences from *.nikitin.su. In order to reuse these demo pages feel free to find-and-replace nikitin.su and go from there:
- /benchmark — runs a few demo cases for each protocol
- /ui — runs some pseudo-cache demo of http prefetching capabilities
If you have any questions at all — please open an issue.
A convenient way of accessing QUIC pages from a Mac is running Chrome (tested on v.58) with a few command line parameters:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome --enable-quic --origin-to-force-quic-on=your.quic.domain:8083