On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:27:31PM +0800, Xidorn Quan wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Martin Thomson <m...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunz...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Could we probably restrict it to non-release builds (aurora and
> nightly)
> > > > rather than restrict them to debug builds only? Debug builds are
> harder
> > > to
> > > > get, and are slow.
> > >
> > > That was suggested, but we decided against it in bug 1188657.  I think
> > > that we'd be happy to land a patch that restored this if there was
> > > enough demand.  Maybe I'm unusual, but I just run debug builds when I
> > > want to investigate this sort of thing.
> > >
> >
> > I don't think anyone other than browser developers would be willing to
> > build browser themselves. I myself don't even usually build the browser
> in
> > my personal laptop, and I certainly won't build it just for analysing the
> > traffic...
>
> Very few developers will need to analyze traffic at a level requiring
> SSLKEYLOGFILE. In most cases, you get well enough in Firefox's builtin
> developer tools. And even if that's not enough, you can get NSS from a
> debug build, stick it into a non debug build, and use SSLKEYLOGFILE.
> (presumably, one only needs libssl3.so/libssl3.dylib/ssl3.dll)
>

Probably not so many developers need to analyze traffic frequently, but
people may occasionally want to use it, e.g., to learn how browser works in
some cases.

- Xidorn
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