Hello everyone, nsIURI has been immutable for a few releases now, meaning once you had one it was safe to use it on any thread (even change it using nsIURIMutator). But until recently you couldn't create a new URI off the main thread (unless you already knew the type of the URI). A few days ago I closed bug 922464 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922464>, which means nsIURI can now be safely used and created on any thread via NS_NewURI. It also means nsIProtocolHandler.newURI no longer exists, and if you want to add any other special scheme to Gecko you should do so in NS_NewURI in nsNetUtil.cpp
Most of the work happened in bug 1536744 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536744>. This unblocks work to make make nsIPrincipal thread safe in bug 1443925 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443925>. I've noticed there are some places that keep URIs around as strings. If those strings are regularly used to create nsIURIs, I strongly encourage you to do so from the beginning. There is still work to be done in order to reduce the number of implementations we have for nsIURI and resolve our incompatibilities with the URL spec. Stay tuned. Let me know if you uncover any issues, or if you have any questions. Cheers! -- Valentin _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
