Networking/Archive/Necko/Web packages
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Description
Web packages are a new packaging format for apps or web resources in general. The packaging format is based on the W3C spec with the exception that resources are uniquely identified by a URL composed of the package URL, the !// separator, followed by the path to the resource inside the package.
Example: http://example.org/path/to/package.pak!//path/to/resource.html
Implementation
The bulk of the implementation is located in
netwerk/protocol/http/PackagedAppService.cpp netwerk/protocol/http/PackagedAppVerifier.cpp netwerk/protocol/http/PackagedAppUtils.js
Prefs
network.http.enable-packaged-apps - Set this to true in order to enable this feature network.http.signed-packages.enabled - Set this to true in order to enable signature verification