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Kevin

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Jason Duell <jdu...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> +1 to asserting during tests. I'd feel better about doing it on nightly too
> if there were a way to include the offending URI in the crash report.  But
> I'm guessing there's not?
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Jet Villegas <jville...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I wonder why we'd allow *any* parsing differences here? Couldn't you just
> > assert and fail hard while you're testing against our tests and in
> Nightly?
> > I imagine the differences you don't catch this way will be so subtle that
> > crowd-sourcing is unlikely to catch them either.
> >
> > --Jet
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Valentin Gosu <valentin.g...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > As some of you may know, Rust is approaching its 1.0 release in a
> couple
> > of
> > > weeks. One of the major goals for Rust is using a rust library in
> Gecko.
> > > The specific one I'm working at the moment is adding rust-url as a
> safer
> > > alternative to nsStandardURL.
> > >
> > > This project is still in its infancy, but we're making good progress. A
> > WIP
> > > patch is posted in bug 1151899, while infrastructure support for the
> rust
> > > compiler is tracked in bug 1135640.
> > >
> > > One of the main problems in this endeavor is compatibility. It would be
> > > best if this change wouldn't introduce any changes in the way we parse
> > and
> > > encode/decode URLs, however rust-url does differ a bit from Gecko's own
> > > parser. While we can account for the differences we know of, there may
> > be a
> > > lot of other cases we are not aware of. I propose using our volunteer
> > base
> > > in trying to find more of these differences by reporting them on
> Nightly.
> > >
> > > My patch currently uses printf to note when a parsing difference
> occurs,
> > or
> > > when any of the getters (GetHost, GetPath, etc) returns a string that's
> > > different from our native implementation. Printf might not be the best
> > way
> > > of logging these differences though. NSPR logging might work, or even
> > > writing to a log file in the current directory.
> > >
> > > These differences are quite privacy sensitive, so an automatic
> reporting
> > > tool probably wouldn't work. Has anyone done something like this
> before?
> > > Would fuzzing be a good way of finding more cases?
> > >
> > > I'm waiting for any comments and suggestions you may have.
> > > Thanks!
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