Necko
Necko is a platform-independent API for several layers of networking (transport to presentation).
Necko has several important pieces:
- nsIOService
- nsIURI
- nsIChannel
- nsIProtocolHandler
- nsITransport
nsIOService
- Main necko service
- Manages protocol handlers
- Creates URI objects from URI strings
nsIURI
- is an object that represents a URI.
- getters/setters for parts of the URI