Re: www/firefox 94.0.2 and QUIC

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 10:27:35PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 at 16:19, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 at 11:36, Marc Baudoin <babafou%babafou.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > I still can't get HTTP/3 to work for me with www/firefox
> > > (firefox-122.0.1) on NetBSD/amd64 10.0_RC4.  I don't think it's a
> > > network or DNS issue because the same version of Firefox on the
> > > same machine, but running Linux, has HTTP/3 working OK.
> > >
> > > I tried:
> > >
> > > https://quic.rocks:4433/
> > > https://cloudflare-quic.com/
> > > https://quic.nginx.org/
> > >
> > > Nothing works with Firefox on NetBSD.
> > >
> > > What could be the issue?
> >
> > Can confirm I see the same behaviour, NetBSD-amd64 10.0_RC4
> > firefox-122.0.1 built from the latest pkgsrc. about:config indicates
> > http3 is enabled
> >
> > The firefox source mentions that QUIC and HTTP/3 are implemented via
> > the rust neqo library, so I don't know if that might not be being
> > built or some part of it is missing NetBSD support? From a quick check
> > there does not appear to be any bsd reference in "neqo containing
> > subtrees of firefox" (find . -name \*neqo\* | xargs grep -r bsd), and
> > the only linux references are in a non-gecko config path.
> >
> > Does anyone have a FreeBSD or OpenBSD system with firefox to hand on
> > which they can run the same test against https://cloudflare-quic.com/
> 
> Just tested a NomadBSD (FreeBSD 14.x) image, and its firefox shows
> HTTP/2 on https://cloudflare-quic.com/ then switches to HTTP/3 on
> reload, so it's not a Linux vs BSD thing...
> 
> On NetBSD cloudflare is diligently setting the alt-svc header to
> something of the form h3=":443"; ma=86400 so it's not withholding
> http/3...
> 
> Curious

NetBSD 10.0_RC4 amd64 with firefox-120.0.1 from pkgsrc-2023Q4, HTTP/3
works on the second reload from https://cloudflare-quic.com/.

Not sure what's different about my setup?

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