Re: nsIStreamObserver changes?

[Judson Valeski]

Doug Turner wrote:

> OnStart is called now without any status because nothing has happened 
> yet.  It is an notification that tells the observers "get ready".  One 
> can expect an OnStop to tell us if things went sucessful or if the 
> transaction failed.  Today, if we fail to connect to the remote server 
> (because of a DNS problem) the OnStop (not the OnStart) is called to 
> tell us what happened.
> What would passing a status in OnStart buy us?  What kind of errors do 
> we expect to throw here? 

if we break the current semantics of coupling onstart|onstop (which is 
what's currently proposed), there's no need to push a result code into 
onstart.

Jud