mathjazz/http-dns

HTTP DNS

This is a test WebExtension + Experimental API to enable HTTP DNS in the browser, for testing purposes.

Run a non-release build (Nightly or Aurora) version 61+.
Set extensions.legacy.enabled to true in about:config
Navigate to about:debugging, choose "Load Temporary Add-on" and select a file from this project:
- Select manifest.json
- Select src/web-ext-artifacts/dns_over_https-${VERSION}.zip

You should see a new entry in the list of extensions titled "HTTP DNS".

The preferences are managed by states-trr.json this is only read by the browsers parent process in the Web Extension Experiment code.

"prefTypes": This is a list of the types that we set the preferences to. If a preference isn't already built with Firefox, it's sometimes hard to reason about.
"prerequisitePrefs": This is an array of preferences that must not be modified by the user, if they are the addon uninstalls itself without any further modification
"statePref": This is where the addon will store it's state "id" from the "states" objects.
"states": This is a object, where the keys are the state name used in the code itself. The object:
- "id" which will be stored in the "statePref".
  - negative id's are used to prevent the code from setting uninstall/disable states when the addon is removed.
  - negative id's should be the final state of the addon after it's removed. (The addon never removes it's "statePref")
- "_comment": this doesn't have any functional impact, it's expected to contain the reason the user has this state.
- "prefs": This is an object of the initial values that this state will set.
  - When the state is changed, these prefs will be reset.
- "persistPrefs": This is an object of the values that this state will set even on addon removal.