vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport
Add webtransport support to nim-libp2p
Description
Extend the number of transports supported by nim-libp2p via the developent of Webtransport, which would allow browsers to establish bidirectional stream connections to nim-libp2p servers
Task List
Wrapping nghttp3
- fully qualified name:
vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:nghttp3-wrapping - owner: vlado
- status: 90%
- start-date: 2025-04-11
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Description
Create wrapper around the nghttp3 C library for Nim.
Deliverables
- add nghttp3 wrapping with futhark nim-nghttp3 #1
- ci: add ci for linux and mac nim-nghttp3 #2
HTTP/3 Client
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vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:http3-client - owner: vlado
- status: 25%
- start-date: 2025-04-14
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Description
Implement HTTP/3 Client following draft-ietf-webtrans-http3-02 specification. This should be done as part of the nim-quic module.
Deliverables
HTTP/3 Server
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vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:http3-server - owner: vlado
- status:
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Description
Implement HTTP/3 Server following draft-ietf-webtrans-http3-02 specification. This should be done as part of the nim-quic module.
Deliverables
HTTP/3 Maintenance
- fully qualified name:
vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:http3-maintenance - owner: vlado
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Description
Final improvements, code polishing and interoperability testing after Client and Server are merged.
Deliverables
Certificate generation
- fully qualified name:
vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:certificate - owner: vlado
- status: not started
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Description
Certificate generation according to libp2p webtransport specification
Deliverables
Key components implementation
- fully qualified name:
vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:key-components - owner: vlado
- status: not started
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Description
Implement webtransport key components: Client, Server, Session
Deliverables
Noise handshake and certificate validation
- fully qualified name:
vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:handshake-and-cert-validation - owner: vlado
- status: not started
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Description
1.3. Noise handshake and certificate validtion according to libp2p webtransport specification