Access my QUIC server from browser

[Akhil Shashidhar]

Hi:

I built the prototype QUIC server and am running it on my amazon micro instance. I am able to access server from QUIC_client, which I am running on uBuntu VM on my laptop. Now, my question is how do I access this from chrome browser ? In fact I want to access it from my Nexus-5's chrome browser (even if I have to install a beta version or build and install apk, am OK with it).

I really appreciate any pointer which helps me get answers to my questions.

Thank you,

Akhil

[Alyssa (Rzeszutek) Wilk]

If you want to force QUIC on to a server which only speaks QUIC, you should be able to adapt the instructions on the QUIC FAQ  http://www.chromium.org/quic/quic-faq#TOC-How-do-I-aim-Chrome-at-the-test-server- to point to your micro instance.

Before you do this, I'd highly suggest testing that you are configured correctly and can speak QUIC by using the quic_client first locally on your micro instance and second on your laptop.  

cheers,

Alyssa

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[Akhil]

Thanks Alyssa. This is exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to force the FIRST REQUEST to QUIC server.

I was about to fall-back on another approach (link below). It requires me to configure a HTTP/TCP server on QUIC server machine and respond to the first HTTP request with "quic-supported" HTTP header.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/proto-quic/chrome$20quic$20server/proto-quic/DCEV4DDGSZE/htscYnaD9VEJ

- Akhil

[Akhil]

Hi Alyssa:

Is there a way I can set "--origin-to-force-quic-on" without launching chrome from command line?
I want to set this on my mobile phone running chrome.

Thanks,
Akhil

- Akhil

[Wesley Davison]

Hi, Akhill,

As far as I know, you will need to change the preamble of the files that will be in the cache folder. The QUIC server, until I could find, read these preamble to configure their "cache structure". 

In my experiments, in order to access the QUIC server using chrome at localhost, I needed to do the following steps:

1. add, at the beginning of the index.html, the string "X-Original-Url: http://localhost/index.html";
2. execute chrome with the "enable-quic" and "origin-to-force-quic-on" (e.g. ./chrome --enable-quic --origin-to-force-quic-on=localhost:6121);
3. execute QUIC server (e.g. ./quic_server --quic_in_memory_cache_dir=<path-to-index-folder>).

after this, I could access it, typing "http://localhost/index.html" in the browser.

Based on this, in my opinion, you will just need to add the "X-Original-Url: http://<ip-of-amazon-server>/index.html" at the beginning of your index.html file.

If these information does not solve your problem, we can try to find other solutions.

BR,

Davison

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