1256977 - chrome.sockets

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1247628

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Oleksandr]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160303134406

Steps to reproduce:

Chrome Network Communications:
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_network

but in roadmap for WebExtensions absolutely missing functionality for the network :(

you can add chrome.sockets in the work plan for the WebExtensions?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/RoadMap
http://arewewebextensionsyet.com/

chrome.sockets.udp
chrome.sockets.tcp

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/sockets_udp
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/sockets_tcp

in XPCom-Firefox:
udp:
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/udp-socket;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIUDPSocket);
tcp:
http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/network/TCPSocket.js
http://code.ohloh.net/file?fid=BgZ87J8OVtGhTnnvOIHQkCzASpg&cid=4ESc7cIf2f0&s=&fp=305506&mp&projSelected=true#L0
https://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/26755467/

I use it in my addons:
for udp: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/fox-web-security/
for udp and tcp: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/torrent-tornado/

Tnank you!