Doug Turner wrote:
> What was the reason for this proposed change? is there a bug with more
> context?
The concept of a FailedToStart nsIStreamObserver notification
came out of some discussion I had with Gagan before he left.
>
> The way I see it is that the error handling should be done in the
> |onStopRequest|. Until then, it is assumed that everything is going
Yes, error handling should be done in OnStopRequest. This
makes sense provided OnStartRequest has been called. The
protocol/transport implementation cannot call OnStopRequest
if it has not already called OnStartRequest.
So, what about the case of an error occuring before OnStartRequest
has been called?
> okay. Would this be some kind of callback so that you could correct
> problems?
>
>
No.
Darin