network layer improvements

[Antoine Martin]

tracker ticket:

• #1504 delay SSL socket wrapping
• #1594 IPv6
• #619 better TCP_NODELAY handling: only use it when it is useful
• #639 UDP transport
• #1669 UDP improvements
• #999 catch limited bandwidth issues sooner
• #401 detect bad connection and warn the user
• #540 handle connection issues, session events, network drop outs, power events, etc
• #417 re-implement bandwidth constraint option
• #1134 websockify
• #1591 signals SA_RESTART siginterrupt etc
• #1338 html mode WebRTC transport
• #2121 replace websockify and websocket-client with custom code
• #2139 less copying to reassemble packets
• #1863 detect lower level network attributes
• #2090 XPRA does not recover from network congestion (even when network does)
• #2105 tcp socks proxy support
• #1022 client in listen mode
• #675 extend xpra proxy for terminal server deployments
• #2125 let a server register with a proxy
• #2420 enable SO_KEEPALIVE?
• #2421 detect slow send buffer drainging pace using TCP_INFO

Other ideas:

• protocol close: split read and write so we can flush with read closed - meh
• measure: YIELD vs NO_YIELD
• remove parse and format threads from protocol: no longer needed? (python threads are expensive)

Other links:

• ​srtalliance: "making video streaming better"
• ​webrtc
• ​TCP BBR: loss-based congestion control can result in abysmal throughput because it overreacts..

Older tickets:

• #1424 html5 faster network layer
• #1271 support websockets in the python client
• #1134 websockify bottleneck
• #983 AF_VSOCK support
• #731 mdns service type
• #514 TCP_NODELAY
• #502 efficient network receive buffer management when receiving large chunks
• #418 more aggressive speed tuning when bandwidth is available
• #181 to yield or not to yield
• #1860 detect jittery connections

Related tickets:

• #1454 allow named pipes over the network
• #1188 create a wireshark dissector
• #1255 smartcard api

[migration script]

this ticket has been moved to: ​https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1590