Picoquic CLI Usage

On Linux after building, the following executables are available in the project root directory. All support “-h” argument to get the detailed usage:

• picohttp_ct: runs various HTTP tests
• picoquic_ct: runs various QUIC tests
  • with no arguments, runs all tests.
• picoquicdemo: QUIC/HTTP demo client and server for HTTP/3, HTTP/0.9, QUIC performance tests and Siduck(simple test of Datagram support)
• picoquic_sample: QUIC/HTTP sample demonstrating how to write an application using the picoquic stack. It is not meant to be actually used. See sample/README.md for detailed usage

HTTP Client and Server Usage

• client: ./picoquicdemo servername serverportnumber HTTPpath
  • downloaded files will be in current directory. use -o for another folder
  • exemple: ./picoquicdemo -o ../received 192.0.2.1 4433 index.html
• server: ./picoquicdemo -p portnumber
  • -p argument tells the program that it is acting as a server
  • HTML root folder is current directory by default. use -w for another folder
  • keys and certs are specified by -k and -c. See -h for more details.
  • exemple: ./picoquicdemo -w ../htmlroot -p 4433
• additional useful information for HTTP usage is available at:
  • Without DNS Names Or Certs
  • Certs Using Lets Encrypt
  • Absolute Path

QUIC Logging

• add -q $folder to cli commands so that QUIC logs are generated in that folder
• you may use https://qvis.quictools.info/ by uploading the QLOG files and visualize the flows.