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by legulere 2237 days ago
> MsQuic is shipped in-box in the Windows kernel in the form of the msquic.sys driver

Does that mean that a HTTP.SYS Webserver will also Support QUIC?

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We are currently testing HTTP/3 support in IIS/http.sys internally. Cannot comment on any external product release timelines.
You mean IIS? HTTP.SYS isn't a webserver.
HTTP.SYS is the core of a Windows NT native web server; the async listen/accept loop, IOCP-based data transfer, etc. IIS is built on top of HTTP.SYS. I presume that it ships with Windows for ease of servicing; it is after all a kernel-mode driver (of sorts).
The kernel module HTTP.SYS contains a HTTP server. It's used by IIS, but you can also use its API directly.
Wow, didn't know that.

API for the curious: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/http/http-api...