369952 - API for encrypted XPI and JAR files

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: JAR, enhancement)

Description

[Georg Maaß]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414

Hi,

is there an API to open encrypted XPI files and encrypted JAR files? With many zip applications you may set a password to prevent opening the zipped file without password. Is there an API for XUL applications to tell the password to the component that unzipps the file to also do the decryption?

The idea is to publish customer related add ons for mozilla based applications but protect them by using a password on the XPI files and JAR files to make them usable only to the desired persons at the customer.

At the moment it seems that the related component responsible for unzipping does  not detect encryption.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Daniel Kirsch]

Yes! That would make XULRunner based application development much more interesting for commercial projects. If this is not allready possible or not on any priority list, I would be interested to get in contact with someone who is able to realize it and add that implementation to the mozilla code base.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

This is an RFE, therefore promoting from Moz-1.7 to Sm-trunk.

No action in over a year.