Seven years ago everyone was up in arms about DoH and I wrote about how we implemented it in #Firefox (as I worked for Mozilla back then)
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/06/03/inside-firefoxs-doh-engine/
@[email protected] how do you feel about me browsing using lynx?
@[email protected] I remember hearing about this because the UK ISP lobbying group nominated Mozilla as an Internet Villain when it rolled out:
After I wrote (most of) the DoH implementation for #Firefox it was not too hard to subsequently add support for DoH in #curl.
If I’m going to be totally honest: implementing anything in #curl is about fourteen times easier and more fun than the thread- and object-spaghetti that is #Firefox code… But don’t tell anyone I said this.
@[email protected] It’ll be even easier once you merge that LLM authored PR. The one refactoring everything to use a more modern and flexible component system.
At least three kinds of marshalling.
Cross platform of course.
Interfaces upon interfaces for that extra plattan-i-mattan rapid development cycle?eXtra Powerful Curl Object Model?
@[email protected] This will stay between you, me and your 34 thousand other followers
@[email protected] thanks!
@[email protected] … so we can soon expect new curl parameters “–run-with-gui” and “–enable-web-browser-mode“. Not much is missing for that, right?
@[email protected] The thing that projects like Firefox (and Chromium) desperately need is a fresh rewrite from scratch…
