Hello,

The goal of this email is to probe the interest about integrating CoAP
features into the libcurl.

*TL;DR* I want to know if you would be interested into having CoAP support
into libcurl and what need to be done for a CoAP patch to be integrated
into upstream libcurl.

*What is CoAP?:*

CoAP is an application protocol designed to request and post information on
low power and simple devices. CoAP is inspired from HTTP, the REST design
and uses UDP as a transport layer. It can manage GET, POST, PUT verbs and
features an OBSERVE functionality that is similar to a publish subscribe.

CoAP is an actively developped protocol and several ETSI plugtests already
happened to prove compatibility between different implementation.
http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/coap/coap.htm

More information about CoAP is available on https://ietf.org/wg/core/

*Why put CoAP into curl:*

There are several reasons to put support for CoAP into the libcurl
- First, CoAP and HTTP are protocols that have several common points (REST
oriented, URI,...)
- It can make CoAP available on a larger audience and ease up deployment
and integration with existing solutions.
- It can open up curl to be used towards a new set of appliances and add a
protocol to its (already) long list of supported protocols

*What already exists:*

There are several implementations we can mention :
- libcoap http://libcoap.sourceforge.net/ BSD/GPL
- smcp https://github.com/darconeous/smcp

There is a bunch of implementation for CoAP. You can see some of them on
the wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_Application_Protocol
Maybe a solution could be to integrate one of them into the upstream
libcurl.

*What comes next:*

If the feedbacks and interests are present, we might dedicate an internship
for making it possible. Right now we are probing for interest, directions
and requierements.

*Questions:*

- Is it mandatory for a protocol to have the RFC status in order to be
integrated into libcurl?
- How many unit tests are required for a new protocol to be integrated?
- Do you have walkthroughs or tutorials in order to implement a protocol
into the libcurl?

Best regards

–
LEONE Rémy
PhD student CIFRE :: Thales TAI/Telecom Paris Tech
https://www.linkedin.com/in/remyleone

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