EXAMPLES.txt

# Copyright (c) 2017 - 2018 LiteSpeed Technologies Inc.  See LICENSE.
LSQUIC Examples
===============

test/http_client.c demonstrates how to use HTTP features of QUIC.

Usage Examples
--------------

Fetch Google's home page:

    ./http_client -H www.google.com -s 74.125.22.106:443 -p /

    or even

    ./http_client -H www.google.co.uk -s 2a00:1450:4009:80c::2003:443 -p /

In the example above, -H specifies the domain; it is also used as the value
of SNI paramater in the handshake.

POST a file to calculate its CRC32 checksum:

    ./http_client -H www.litespeedtech.com -s 127.0.0.1:443 \
                        -p /cgi-bin/crc32.cgi -P file-256M -M POST

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    content-type: text/plain
    date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:40:45 GMT
    server: LiteSpeed
    alt-svc: quic=":443"; v="35,37"

    CRC32: 2A0E7DBB

This is a good way to check that the payload gets to the other side
correctly.  The CGI script is:

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use String::CRC32;
    printf "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\nCRC32: %X\n", crc32(*STDIN)

On the command line, I do

    alias crc32="perl -MString::CRC32 -e'printf qq(%X\n), crc32(<>)'"

To submit several requests concurrently, one can use -n and -r options:

    ./http_client -H www.litespeedtech.com -s 127.0.0.1:443 \
                -p /cgi-bin/crc32.cgi -P file-256M -M POST -n 3 -r 10

This will open three parallel connections which will make ten POST
requests together.

To perform load testing, it is good to mix sending and receiving data:

    for i in {1..100}; do
        ./http_client $COMMON_OPTS -p /cgi-bin/crc32.cgi -P file-256M \
                                                    -M POST >out-post.$i &
        ./http_client $COMMON_OPTS -p /docs/file-256M >out-get.$i        &
        sleep 1
    done

If you don't want to create a hundred 256-megabyte out-get.* files, use -K
flag to discard output.

Control QUIC Settings via -o Flag
---------------------------------

Most of the settings in struct lsquic_engine_settings can be controlled
via -o flag.  With exception of es_versions, which is a bit mask, other
es_* options can be mapped to corresponding -o value via s/^es_//:

    es_cfcw             =>  -o cwcf=12345
    es_max_streams_in   =>  -o max_streams_in=123

And so on.

The code to set options via -o flag lives in set_engine_option().  It is good
to update this function at the same time as member fields are added to struct
lsquic_engine_settings.

Control LSQUIC Behavior via Environment Variables
-------------------------------------------------

LSQUIC_PACER_INTERTICK

    Number of microsecods to use as constant intertick time in lieu of the
    pacer's dynamic intertick time approximation.

    Only available in debug builds.

LSQUIC_CUBIC_SAMPLING_RATE

    Number of microseconds between times CWND is logged at info level.

    Only available in debug builds.

Control Network-Related Stuff
-----------------------------

   -D          Set `do not fragment' flag on outgoing UDP packets.

   -z BYTES    Maximum size of outgoing UDP packets.  The default is 1370
               bytes for IPv4 socket and 1350 bytes for IPv6 socket.

   -S opt=val  Socket options.  Supported options:
                   sndbuf=12345    # Sets SO_SNDBUF
                   rcvbuf=12345    # Sets SO_RCVBUF

More Compilation Options
------------------------

-DFULL_CONN_STATS=1

    Track some statistics about full connection -- packets in, sent, delayed,
    stream payload per packet size ratio, and some others -- and print them
    at NOTICE level when connection is destroyed.

    This is useful when performing network testing and especially analyzing
    the effects of changing send buffer size (see -S sndbuf= in the previous
    section).

-DLSQUIC_PACKINTS_SANITY_CHECK=1

    Turn on sanity checking for packet interval code.  The packet interval
    code, shared by both send and receive history modules, contained a bug
    which prompted me to add a checking function.

-DLSQUIC_SEND_STATS=0

    Turn off statistics collection performed by the send controller: number
    of packets sent, resent, and delayed.

-DLSQUIC_LOWEST_LOG_LEVEL=LSQ_LOG_WARN

    If you want to go even faster: compile out some log levels entirely.

-DLSQUIC_EXTRA_CHECKS=1

    Add relatively expensive run-time sanity checks