236865 - Factor URI-List preference parsing into a common service

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

Factor URI-List preference parsing into a common service.  We have several
places in necko (and related code) that parsed a list of base URIs or domain
names and matches a nsIURI against those lists.  We should pool this code
together into a single service.  While it might be nice to come up with some
uber-management system a'la security zones for this kind of thing, I think it
makes sense to unify the code in the meantime.

Here's the URI lists I'm thinking of:

  nsProtocolProxyService - no-proxies-on preference
  nsDNSService2          - ipv4 only domains
  negotiate-auth         - trusted uris, delegation uris

Others that could use this:

  pipelining             - support site blacklisting

There may be other prefs that could be managed in a similar way.  I'll attach a
rough v0 unfinished patch.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

Attachment: v0 patch - unfinished

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

now that nsIPermissionManager lives in necko, we might want to (re-)consider
using it for managing these capability lists.