1583058 - WebExtension API for DNS TXT resolution

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: Extensions API, enhancement)

Description

[plieser]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

I want to be able to do DNS TXT queries via the WebExtensions API

Actual results:

Currently browser.dns.resolve() (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/dns/resolve) does not support TXT records.

Expected results:

DNS TXT resolution should be possible.
If a single TXT record contains multiple string, all must be returned.
If the resolving fails, the reason why should be reported. E.g. it should be possible to distinguish between a non-existent domain, and an unreachable server.

If DNS.jsm is used as a backend, this is blocked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1583053

Note that there also exist a request to add it in Firefox (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1449171).

Comment 1

[Claas Augner [:claas]]

Moving to WebExtensions/Untriaged.

Comment 2

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

This bug may be a duplicate of bug 1449171, but I don't know for sure. It is definitely an enhancement regarding Request Handling.

Comment 3

[plieser]

Note that I deliberately filed this as a separate bug for the Thunderbird Product. If bug 1449171 gets implemented this one can of course also be closed.

But if this does not get implemented in Firefox, I wanted the Thunderbird developers to consider adding it to the Thunderbird specific WebExtensions APIs. As mentioned in my original post, Thunderbird already has a code that could be reuses to implement this.

Comment 4

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

Moving back to TB per comment 3

Comment 5

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

The DNS API is not specific to Firefox. If they fix it, we get it. If not, I recommend doing this as a WebExtension experiment. We won't be making Thunderbird specific extensions to this API.