WebTransport

A modern web API built on HTTP/3 and QUIC providing bidirectional and unidirectional streams plus unreliable datagrams to browsers. Designed as a higher-performance successor to WebSocket for streaming workloads, supported in Chromium-based browsers and progressively adopted in production.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: realtime:webtransport
name: WebTransport
description: A modern web API built on HTTP/3 and QUIC providing bidirectional and unidirectional streams
  plus unreliable datagrams to browsers. Designed as a higher-performance successor to WebSocket for streaming
  workloads, supported in Chromium-based browsers and progressively adopted in production.
humanURL: https://www.w3.org/TR/webtransport/
tags:
- WebTransport
- HTTP/3
- QUIC
- Browser
- Standard
properties:
- type: Specification
  url: https://www.w3.org/TR/webtransport/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebTransport_API