4707 - Need to be able to access contents of archives

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12579

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[David Hyatt]

I need to be able (through a resource URL) to refer to files within a named
JAR archive.  I have no idea what the syntax will be for this, but a comment in
nsNetService.cpp implies that you plan on adding support for accessing JARs
through resource URLs at the very least.

This is a requirement for downloadable chrome, to be able to give a URL that
specifies a JAR and a file within the JAR and to be able to have that read in.

Comment 1

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

Maybe dan (xpinstall) folks are working on this.

Comment 2

[chris hofmann]

Dan/Cathleen, can you set the target milestone for this?

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

I set the target milestone to M6 arbitrarily (it's not M5). E-mail from valeski
implies he's working on the URL access so I'll reassign

Comment 4

[chris hofmann]

->m8.  I think this is when this might be landing as part of necko p2

Comment 5

[leger]

Changing all Networking Library/Browser bugs to Networking-Core component for
Browser.

Occasionally, Bugzilla will burp and cause Verified bugs to reopen when I do
this in a bulk change.  If this happens, I will fix. ;-)

Comment 6

[Judson Valeski]

haven't even started. moving to M10. our old libjar lib has been xpcomified. now
we just need to define the url syntax for jar files, and how resource urls map
to jar urls.

Comment 7

[David Hyatt]

I will be very excited once this is online, since we should see a nice
performance speedup from moving all our chrome files into jar bundles.

Comment 8

[Judson Valeski]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12579 ***

Comment 9

[leger]

Bulk move of all Networking-Core (to be deleted component) bugs to new
Networking component.

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

verified duplicate of bug 12579.  12579 covers the jar: protocol.