Thnx Timeless and Peter...thats a lot of information to digest at one go for someone who's writing his first ever Firefox program ;) .I'll repost if needed after going through all your suggestions slowly and in detail. Thnx a bunch and I'll make sure I repost in the other group next time around.
Cheers Arvind On Mar 2, 5:29 am, "Peter Djalaliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 1, 1:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thnx Peter. Okay..now lets see if I've understood you. > > > In the normal case when I use FTP through Firefox I use an FTP API > > which is natively available in Mozilla/Firefox. > > > But Firefox doesn't have an API at all for Sftp..which means that I'll > > have to write an API for it. So is it ok if I use "sshlib" or some > > other third party library, use C++ to use the API's it offers and > > write the entire code to access the Sftp server in C++.Okay...so now I > > have the entire code ..completely independent from Firefox in C++. So > > I can invoke this code and can get connected to the Sftp > > server...right??? > > The whole point of using the Mozilla platform available through XPCOM > is portability and code re-usability. Theoretically, you an write > your external code and just invoke it from the Mozilla/Firefox > platform. However, I find it hard to believe that this will be easy > for you to do. I mean, theoretically, you could just use the Gecko > module to invoke a request, pass it to your external code that has > nothing to do with Firefox, and then pass the result back to Gecko to > display it in your browser's window. However, this is so ugle that I > wouldn't dream of doing it. Also, if portability is important to you, > you have to guarantee yourself that your sftp external code is > portable. > > > The next thing now is to make Mozilla somehow understand that it has > > to just try and call this C++ code. No SFTP functionality will be > > written here. As soon as the user enters "username" and "password" and > > hits "GO" the entire C++ code is called and I'm connected.Is there an > > interface to achieve this? > > > So I'm not writing any of the Sftp functionality in Firefox itself. > > I'm telling Firefox..."Just call the C++ code". > > Yeah, as timeless indicated, you will need to implement your own > protocol handler and channel classes that would be invoked when the > user makes a request through the Firefox GUI. This is the minimum > that Necko needs to provide for every kind of request to be made > through Firefox. You can see the interface definitions for these > modules here: > > http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/ifaces/nsIProtocolHandle...http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/ifaces/nsIProxiedProtoco...http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/ifaces/nsIChannel.html > > > Does this make any sense and if it is will the code be portable? > > It makes sense in a weird way but you are trying to do something very > unnatural - make some Necko functionality interface with code external > to Mozilla. There can be any number of things goign wrong here, but I > don't know - it might be doable. As for portability - if you use > Mozilla code, this will ensure portability. If you don't, you need to > provide your own means of portability (unless the external code is a > library that already provides portability). > > By the way, this mailing list is the wrong place for this discussion. > The right mailing list is mozilla.dev.tech.network, which is where the > Necko maintainers and developers hang around. > > Regards, > Peter _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
