aiortc•Mar 27, 2025
aioquic
aioquic
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What is `aioquic?
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.
aioquic is used by Python opensource projects such as dnspython_,
hypercorn, mitmproxy and the Web Platform Tests_ cross-browser test
suite. It has also been used extensively in research papers about QUIC.
To learn more about aioquic please read the documentation_.
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.
A lot of effort has gone into writing an extensive test suite for the
aioquic code to ensure best-in-class code quality, and it is regularly
tested for interoperability against other QUIC implementations.
Features
minimal TLS 1.3 implementation conforming with RFC 8446_
QUIC stack conforming with RFC 9000 (QUIC v1) and RFC 9369 (QUIC v2)
IPv4 and IPv6 support
connection migration and NAT rebinding
logging TLS traffic secrets
logging QUIC events in QLOG format
version negotiation conforming with RFC 9368_
HTTP/3 stack conforming with RFC 9114_
server push support
WebSocket bootstrapping conforming with RFC 9220_
datagram support conforming with RFC 9297_
Installing
The easiest way to install aioquic is to run:
.. code:: bash
pip install aioquic
Building from source
If there are no wheels for your system or if you wish to build aioquic
from source you will need the OpenSSL development headers.
Linux
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On Debian/Ubuntu run:
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sudo apt install libssl-dev python3-dev
On Alpine Linux run:
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sudo apk add openssl-dev python3-dev bsd-compat-headers libffi-dev
OS X
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On OS X run:
.. code-block:: console
brew install openssl
You will need to set some environment variables to link against OpenSSL:
.. code-block:: console
export CFLAGS=-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include
export LDFLAGS=-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib
Windows
.......
On Windows the easiest way to install OpenSSL is to use Chocolatey_.
.. code-block:: console
choco install openssl
You will need to set some environment variables to link against OpenSSL:
.. code-block:: console
$Env:INCLUDE = "C:\Progra~1\OpenSSL\include"
$Env:LIB = "C:\Progra~1\OpenSSL\lib"
Running the examples
aioquic comes with a number of examples illustrating various QUIC usecases.
You can browse these examples here: https://github.com/aiortc/aioquic/tree/main/examples
License
aioquic is released under the BSD license`_.
.. _read the documentation: https://aioquic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
.. _dnspython: https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython
.. _hypercorn: https://github.com/pgjones/hypercorn
.. _mitmproxy: https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy
.. _Web Platform Tests: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt
.. _tested for interoperability: https://interop.seemann.io/
.. _QUIC implementations: https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations
.. _cryptography: https://cryptography.io/
.. _Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/
.. _BSD license: https://aioquic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/license.html
.. _RFC 8446: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446
.. _RFC 9000: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000
.. _RFC 9114: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9114
.. _RFC 9220: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9220
.. _RFC 9297: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9297
.. _RFC 9368: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9368
.. _RFC 9369: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9369