Hi Ben - I've appreciated your linux networking contributions over the years - nice to see you on a firefox list!
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I am interested in extending firefox so that it can bind to a specific > local IP address (and network interface on Linux, using SO_BINDTODEVICE). that's something I could get behind. > > I am also interested in adding c-ares support so I have better control > over DNS requests. as jason said, we're moving towards libunbound with some alacrity.. can you do what you need in that framework? > > Are these features something that might be accepted upstream? > > If so, are command-line arguments an acceptable way to allow > such configuration? that's probably not the best approach.. firefox is just one app that uses gecko/necko so the functionality would not be reachable in other apps or if the firefox-app team went away from arguments or whatever in the future.. doing it through prefs is better.. probably a new method in http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/public/nsISocketTransportService.idl which the pref user would call. -Pat _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
