On 02/23/2013 03:23 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
Hi Ben - I've appreciated your linux networking contributions over the
years - nice to see you on a firefox list!
Thanks! I'm probably just passing through...just need a way to
make firefox be able to auto-login to wifi portals for a test
system. Seems web portals have gotten just a little bit too clever
to easily do this with curl these days...
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello!
I am interested in extending firefox so that it can bind to a specific
local IP address (and network interface on Linux, using SO_BINDTODEVICE).
that's something I could get behind.
I implemented it with environment variables so I didn't have
to figure out how to get the config arguments properly passed
down to the socket code.
It's a bit of a hack, but I am not sure I have the time or
interest in doing much more. Maybe someone with more knowledge
of mozilla infrastructure can improve on the patches...
I am also interested in adding c-ares support so I have better control
over DNS requests.
as jason said, we're moving towards libunbound with some alacrity..
can you do what you need in that framework?
It does not appear to offer all that I want. I'd want to bind
to local interface, not just IP address, and more importantly,
there does not seem to be a way to specify that a particular
DNS server be used by a particular process. I'm going to have hundreds
of wifi station interfaces, and will need to do portal-login on
each of them using whatever DNS that particular virtual station
is configured for....
Are these features something that might be accepted upstream?
If so, are command-line arguments an acceptable way to allow
such configuration?
that's probably not the best approach.. firefox is just one app that
uses gecko/necko so the functionality would not be reachable in other
apps or if the firefox-app team went away from arguments or whatever
in the future.. doing it through prefs is better.. probably a new
method in
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/public/nsISocketTransportService.idl
which the pref user would call.
Do you normally post patches to mailing lists for review, or do I need
to open a bugzilla bug and attach a patch there?
Either way, can you suggest a good reference for the 'hg' commands
needed to create patches, etc? Is there anything like stgit for hg?
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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