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Networking¶

These linked pages contain design documents for the Networking stack implementation in Gecko. They live in-tree under the ‘netwerk/docs’ directory.

There is also documentation for the HTTP server we use for unit tests.

  • HTTP Cache
  • The lifecycle of a HTTP request
  • HTTP Logging
  • Http3Session and streams
  • DNS over HTTPS (Trusted Recursive Resolver)
  • Submitting actionable networking bugs
  • New-to-Necko Resources - An Aggregation
  • Networking Test Guidelines
  • URL parsers
  • WebTransport
  • Captive portal detection
  • Connectivity checking
  • Neqo triage guideline
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