Thank you very much. I'll have a look at Chatzilla. Oh, and that i/f seems like the "right" thing. All in all, I was concerned that this might be more painful that it's appearing ... .
TomR Pete Collins wrote: > Tom Reinhardt wrote: > > > I am new to XPCOM, but have several years experience with Microsoft's > > COM/DCOM, etc. I'm being asked to develop a proof-of-concept > > application, in the next week or so, which requires that the client > > software obtain a socketed TCP/IP connection in order to communicate > > with a server. In addition, most of the data provided by the server > > consists of image files, which are to be displayed by the client. I > > note that several "Stream" interfaces are provided as are several that > > manipulate the Clipboard. I don't see any scriptable components that > > might help with the TCP/IP-sockets connection, however. > > > > I have not been able to find any comprehensive documentation, outlining > > Interfaces by function, etc. Nor do I suppose that any "Viewers" have > > been written. > > > > If anyone on this NG has any useful information --especially regarding > > support for sockets, etc.-- please respond soon. > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > TomR > > > > > > Look at the Chatzilla code, it has lots of socket calls from js. > > But nsISocketTransportService is the interface you want to look at. > >http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/base/public/nsISocketTransportService.idl > > --pete
