QtCS2017 QtNetwork

QtCore and Network team

Ideas/topics to discuss:

• HTTP server
  • Present status
    • Currently internal repository. Public repository requested.
  • Present scope
  • Use cases?
    • Authentication
    • Simple HTTP Server
    • REST
    • Server-side concurrency (limited). Green threads
    • Internal testing. (Replace MiniHttpServer)
  • Protocol support (HTTP / HTTPS / HTTP2 / WebSockets / Secure WebSockets / CoAP?)
  • Improve JSON support
• CoAP (needs DTLS)
  • DTLS support (who can / will do what?)
• MQTT
• ZeroMQ
• Lack of reviews
  • Contribution is not easy
• Permanent storage for network?
  • It comes from previous network team
• Not just QSslSocket the proxy engines as well
• CoAP is the some use case as Quic from Google
• (Thiago) Add a way to watch a module
• Testing: Network tests are working
  • Problems to access the network test server image
    • It's old
    • Update is not working
    • Improve
    • Tests blacklisted without investigation. Email somebody to take a look to the test.
    • Remind the wiki page about how to write good network test.
• QtSSHServer
• Let's Encrypt API
  • Needed by HTTP and CoAP servers