Thank you Andrew! We are currently trying to make Loqui IM also available on Desktop clients so I was wondering if we'd be able still support all of our providers, also thous we are connecting to with a mozTCPSocket.
2015-09-08 19:18 GMT+02:00 Andrew Sutherland <asutherl...@asutherland.org>: > Preference-wise, mozTCPSocket is available in WebRT. It requires the > "tcp-socket" permission is granted to the origin in question (or the > origin have the system principal). It is not available in desktop > Firefox without flipping a pref, "dom.mozTCPSocket.enabled". (WebRT > flips the pref by default.) See > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1079648 for some more > details re: the preference. > > In order to have the permission granted, the app needs to be a packaged > app in the firefox marketplace. There's no way to use WebIDE to > "side-load" to accomplish this. See > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038533 > > However, https://github.com/mykmelez/tcpsocketpup can be used to grant > the permission to any origin for development. This will flip the > "dom.mozTCPSocket.enabled" preference to true as well. > > As one might surmise from all of this, I don't think it's a particularly > supported set of functionality for desktop at this time. TCPSocket is > no longer on a standardization track, and based on recent discussions, > may be headed for being an "add-on" API. See Jonas's sensitive API > thread here: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.b2g/UB1CFnVy0mc/EQjRDt_YfZoJ > > And the TCPSocket-specific sub-thread I reaised: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.b2g/67KvfP0ZETk/UhZmm9APALcJ > > The summary is probably that: > - TCPSocket is a known useful API > - It's still particularly dangerous and hard to explain that danger to > users which means it is likely to be gated by some type of human-review > for the default installation experience. > > Andrew > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Jovan Gerodetti wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > Quick question. > > Is the TCPSocket also available in the WebRT for Desktop Apps or is it > > FxOS > > only? > > > > Regards, > > Jovan > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-webapps mailing list > > dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapps mailing list > dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps > _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
