Other browsers will surely follow once the protocol is finalized. QUIC is essentially HTTP/2 over UDP which is a new layer4 protocol.Īt the time of writing this article, QUIC is still ‘experimental’, but is enabled by default in Google Chrome, and can be enabled in Opera 16. Where SPDY and HTTP/2 were iterative improvements on HTTP over TCP, QUIC is a different approach using UDP as the transport protocol.
The new kid on the block for performance improvement is a protocol named QUIC. Google has always been obsessed with speed and over the years they have made numerous efforts to make the web more efficient and more performant. This article describes how QUIC works, its current consequences on network security and reporting, and how you can resolve the issues associated with QUIC. Unfortunately, most, if not all, firewalls do not currently recognize QUIC traffic as ‘web’ traffic, therefore it is not inspected, logged or reported on, leaving a gaping hole in your network’s security. It’s on by default in Google Chrome and used by a growing list of websites. QUIC is a new protocol designed by Google to make the web faster and more efficient.
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