1572215 - Allow nsIProtocolHandler to return nsIHTTPChannel (or alike) channel with headers and status code support

Status: NEW

(Core :: Networking, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

As part of dweb effort we're adding experimental web-extension API to register custom network protocol implementations (see Bug libdweb-protocol for details).

However right channels returned by custom nsIProtocolHandler are not queried for nsIHttpChannel nor there is another type of channel that supports headers & status codes. Given that many web APIs depends on HTTP headers (e.g. video element will issue range requests) we need some way to allow passing headers to requests and responses.

Comment 1

[Kershaw Chang [:kershaw]]

Put this to P3 for now, since I think necko team has not enough resource to support this.
Please talk to Nhi if you need our support. Thanks.