Re: From HTTP channels, transactions connections to TCP sockets - how does this all come together?

Christian Biesinger <[email protected]> Sun, 9 Sep 2012 17:57:17 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
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On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Eric H. Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've hacked away at this stuff for years but never seen the differences
> between an HTTP connection, HTTP transaction, and HTTP channel (in
> Gecko-terms) so precisely described. It would be awesome to put this on
> MDC, including the corresponding interfaces of each. I'd be very willing to
> do it if someone can point me to an appropriate place?

I'll note that there's also
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/protocol/http/README,
which attempts to explain some of this, though it's somewhat dated.

-christian