Networking/Archive/Necko/e10s

This page is about the port of Mozilla's networking library (Necko) to the Electrolysis (e10s) multi-process architecture.

Design Notes and Building/Debugging instructions

This page has design notes and build/run instructions.

<blink> Hot! </blink> Bugs

These are the most important necko bugs to fix, in order of highest priority to lower. See something that isn't taken? Take it! (mark both here and in bug, please) Something assigned, but isn't moving? Ask on IRC!

Bug	Assigned to	ready for review?	reviewer	Notes
536294 e10s HTTP: redirects	Honza	No, needs significant changes		Needed for tons of sites
536317: e10s HTTP: implement Cancel	Benjamin Stover	no. r-=dougt		I want to look over this too (jduell)
558801: e10s HTTP: support XMLHttpRequests	Josh Matthews	No, and we don't even know cause(s): help!		Several bugs: see dependencies: necko being called re-entrantly by various things
536321: e10s HTTP: suspend/resume	Josh Matthews	Yes	dwitte (reassign?)	Needed for video cache
562444: e10s HTTP: e10s download manager	crowder	yes		We have a first working patch!
567267: nsIEncodedChannel	crowder	yes		Needed for download manager
536301: e10s HTTPS: securityInfo	honza	no		Needed to turn off NSS in content. Needs another review.
564553: Serialize nsInputStreams to support large file uploads	Jae-Seong	one patch needs review, one needs update.		More than one bug--see dependencies. Needed for file uploads. Getting close
536289: Make FTP work for fennec	azakai	no		Needs comments addressed
570003: Make the certificate error page appear	honza	yes		Depends on securityInfo, and also on 570616, which has "ugly" patch ready for review
536295: offline HTTP application cache	honza	yes

Weekly Meetings

Archives of weekly phone conference to discuss the status of e10s necko. We are not currently holding these calls any more.

Cache Notes

This page contains information related to our current cache implementation.