Last 2 years of platform/network/cURL

Basuke Suzuki

• WinCairo two years ago (almost abandoned)
• Curl Network layer is these wires
• Why maintain this port?
  • Curl network layer is currently used in WinCairo
  • PlayStation downstream port uses same network layer.
  • RemoteInspector client is based on WinCairo
• What is cURL project?
  • Open source networking library
• What is lib curl?
  • Written in C89. Callback based.
  • Supports many protocols other than HTTP/HTTPS
  • Not optimized for HTTP in memory usage
  • Supports Auth, Cookie, Connection Cache, Proxy
  • Threaded normal name resolver or c-ares
• Old Architecture
  • ResourceHandle
• Current Architecture
  • Resource Handle and NetworkDataTask on main thread
  • Worker thread
    • CurlRequest, libcurl C++ wrapper, CurlRequestScheduler, Cookie DB, TLS Verification, Proxy Setting
• HTTP/2
  • Uses libnghttp2 via lib curl (very consistent)
  • Implemented with basic support of HTTP/2 features
    • Header compression
    • Multiplexed stream
  • Features we want to support:
    • Server push
    • Resource prioritization
    • Control of the connection life
    • Cache digest
  • Want to know who to contact in Apple
    • We can collaborate on resource prioritization
  • Test environment? wpt?
• What others Sony will do
  • WebKitTestRunner
  • Upstreaming our PlayStation port
  • AC on WinCairo