Networking/Archive/Necko/Web packages

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Description

Web packages are a new packaging format for apps or web resources in general. The packaging format is based on the W3C spec with the exception that resources are uniquely identified by a URL composed of the package URL, the !// separator, followed by the path to the resource inside the package.

 Example: http://example.org/path/to/package.pak!//path/to/resource.html

Implementation

The bulk of the implementation is located in

 netwerk/protocol/http/PackagedAppService.cpp
 netwerk/protocol/http/PackagedAppVerifier.cpp
 netwerk/protocol/http/PackagedAppUtils.js

Prefs

 network.http.enable-packaged-apps
   - Set this to true in order to enable this feature
 network.http.signed-packages.enabled
   - Set this to true in order to enable signature verification
 network.http.signed-packages.developer-root (for testing only, not set by default)
   - Set this to the path of your own signing certificate in your device in order to use this certificate to verify packages not signed by the marketplace.
 network.http.signed-packages.trusted-origin (for testing only, not set by default)
   - Set this to the origin you trust to bypass verification of packages from that origin.

Privileged Content and Signed Packages

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/New_security_model/Packaging