Open Bug 1376074 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Add ability to send binary data using native messaging

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: raul.tambre, Unassigned)

Details

Native messaging currently only allows communication through standard I/O using JSON. An alternative method that allows to send binary data both ways using ArrayBuffers would be of great benefit to many developers. It would allow for better performance and faster development of a co-operating native client.

Chrome bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=732457
Might be worth mentioning, that I previously also made a sample application of how this could probably work. At this time it's unfortunately Windows-only.
It's available here: https://gitlab.com/tambre/BinaryNativeMessagingTest
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → DOM
Product: Firefox → Core
Priority: -- → P3
Component: DOM → DOM: Core & HTML
Severity: normal → S3
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.