qmux
wire protocol for multiplexing connections or streams into a single connection, based on a subset of the SSH Connection Protocol (by progrium)
go-vhost
HTTP/TLS hostname multiplexing library for Go (by inconshreveable)
qmux | go-vhost | |
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4 | 1 | |
223 | 256 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
about 2 years ago | 11 months ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
qmux
Posts with mentions or reviews of qmux.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-24.
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Making programs interact using qtalk
The connection multiplexing layer is based on qmux, a subset of SSH that I've written about previously. It was designed to optionally be swapped out with QUIC as needed. Either way, everything in qtalk happens over flow-controlled channels, which can be used like embedded TCP streams. Whatever you do with qtalk, you can also tunnel other connections and protocols on the same connection.
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Towards the Personal Potential of Software
Unrelated to macdriver, I released a protocol called qmux with a post explaining why this (but really any) muxing protocol, including and especially QUIC, is such a great primitive for network programming. The project came with two implementations, Go and TypeScript, with more on the way. The post about it was the first explainer article I'd done in a while and people liked it. This was important because the idea behind it was really more valuable than the protocol itself, but regardless we still need implementations of it to exist. To show the idea in action, I built a 130 line version of Ngrok, which turned into a great post walking through how it works.
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Building your own Ngrok in 130 lines
What qmux does is give us a subset of the SSH protocol to multiplex many connections over a single connection. It was the missing piece of my original Twisted prototype. You can read more about how there aren't a lot of these protocols (but perhaps with QUIC are also the future of the Internet) in my previous post.
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The History and Future of Socket-level Multiplexing
If nothing else, I hope people use this story as inspiration to think about using multiplexing to design better, simpler application protocols. Even if for some reason QUIC isn't the future, you now have qmux!
go-vhost
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-vhost.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-27.
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Building your own Ngrok in 130 lines
The other library is actually by the author of Ngrok. Called go-vhost, it helps with the problem of virtual hosts. Ideally when a connection comes in to be forwarded down the tunnel we can hand it off wholesale. This way the other end can just start reading off the connection as if received directly. But in order to figure out the hostname used, we have to start reading off the connection up to the Host header. Then we have to hand it off prepended with what was read. What Alan wrote is an abstraction that gives you a virtual listener that lets you accept new connections for a particular virtual host and get the connection as if it hadn't been read yet. A lot of this is due to the interface based approach of the Go standard library.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing qmux and go-vhost you can also consider the following projects:
localtunnel - Expose localhost servers to the Internet
topframe - Local webpage screen overlay for customizing your computing experience
webtransport - WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport
macschema - Toolchain for generating JSON definitions of Apple APIs
qtalk-go - versatile stream IO and RPC based IPC stack for Go