109332 - Networking documentation for Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[benc]

Before I was assigned to networking QA, I was working on mozilla networking
stuff, and started to write a small but hopefully useful set of documents.

I am hoping to make progess on updating these documents, and then send them to
mozilla.org in a reaonsable state. 

I've posted the URL so you can see what I've published.

This would be the ideal place to leave a request for documentation. Please be
specific.

For example: explain how hostname resolution works in mozilla.

Not a good example: how does DNS work?

Comment 1

[mental]

> This would be the ideal place to leave a request for documentation.

Could this be used to address bug 114176?

Comment 2

[benc]

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Can you explain further?

Comment 3

[mental]

Er, I misread that statement completely.  Sorry. :(

Comment 4

[benc]

Looking at:

http://www.mozilla.org/catalog/libraries/network/

We need to hook in a link to:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/necko_url.html

and possibly

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Added the first link still undecided about the QA part if it should go under QA
Or  networking

Comment 6

[benc]

I believe, in time, there will be substantial documentation in
quality/networking, information developers will need for their work.

Why don't we hold off on that, it might be that only some documentation in this
space need to be individually linnked.

Comment 7

[Keyser Sose]

Sounds good to me

Comment 8

[benc]

Links for "Domain Guessing" and "Internet Keywords" (not strictly Networking,
but people like to file bugs in Networking...) are now added to the QA page.

Comment 9

[benc]

Added link to http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/netprefs.html

Comment 10

[benc]

Next item will probably be NTLM, given the popularity of our limited implementation.

I'm moving this fall, so ETA is like funny costume day in the USA.