NOTE that alot of the necko interfaces are changing.
Doug Turner wrote:
Also take a look at solution #3 of bug:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65272
I am posting this to the netlib ng for comment.
Darin Fisher wrote:
Doug, I listed out some of the problems with nsIChannel that we identified this morning. I think it's a pretty comprehensive list, but perhaps you'd want to add/clarifty some things, etc...Darin
Problems with nsIChannel
1. Cannot do overlapped reading and writing.
- transferCount & transferOffset are not specific to AsyncRead/AsyncWrite (bug 65272).
- Suspend, Resume, and Cancel are not specific to AsyncRead/AsyncWrite (bug XXX).2. Listeners must be "hungry"
- no support for a listener who wishes to read only part (or none) of the data.
- no support for successfully stopping an AsyncRead in progress (ie. stop but stay connected).3. AsyncWrite is extremely limited
- no support for initiating AsyncWrite when only part (or none) of the data is available (bug 62566).
[required for new cache design and for FTP control connection (bug 65220)]
