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dougt%netscape.com 1b9ca82439 Revising nsIChannel to allow for overlapped i/o. This consists of three parts:
1. Factoring nsIChannel into a protocol specific part, the nsIChannel, and a socket specific, the nsITransport.
2. Derive the nsIChannel from a nsIRequest.
2. Changes the notification system from necko and the URILoader to pass the nsIRequest interface instead of nsIChannel interface.

This goal stems from wanting to be able to have active AsyncRead and AsyncWrite operations on nsSocketTransport.
This is desired because it would greatly simplify the task of maintaining persistent/reusable socket connections
for FTP, HTTP, and Imap (and potentially other protocols).  The problem with the existing nsIChannel interface is
that it does not allow one to selectively suspend just one of the read or write operations while keeping the other active.

The full details of the change on written up in the netlib newsgroup.

r=darin@netscape.com
sr=rpotts@netscape.com
2001-02-10 00:16:26 +00:00
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c-sdk/ldap removed old project and .exp files. 2000-06-15 20:31:13 +00:00
ds-plugins First major cleanup, mostly finished. 2000-01-14 22:25:29 +00:00
java-sdk Updtates for LDAPJDK 4.13 2000-12-18 14:02:20 +00:00
perldap Merged in changes from v1.4.1. 2000-10-05 19:47:47 +00:00
xpcom Revising nsIChannel to allow for overlapped i/o. This consists of three parts: 2001-02-10 00:16:26 +00:00
Makefile updating license boilerplate 1999-11-02 01:46:24 +00:00
buildjsdk.txt Merge from LDAPJavaSDK_40beta_19990802_BRANCH. Some files removed. Some added 1999-08-04 02:03:56 +00:00
buildsdk.txt DIRECTORY_C_SDK_30_BRANCH to TRUNK merge 1998-08-12 10:44:46 +00:00
ldapsdk.mak updating license boilerplate 1999-11-02 01:46:24 +00:00
ldapsdk.mk updating license boilerplate 1999-11-02 01:46:24 +00:00