Qt-contributors-summit-2011-Qt Network

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Qt Networking session:

attendants:

Several INdT people, a Tampere VPN guy, Siddharth (Nokia) Markus (Qt), Peter (Qt), Shane (Accenture), Rich Moore (KDE), Holger Freyther, some others

discussion:

• SSL: several features needed: OCSP, TLS extensions, EV cert support, creating certs… see SSL page on DevNet: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Improving_Qts_SSL_Support
• KDE: Getting rid of KSslSocket, have everything in Qt.
• improve performance with epoll (libev)?
• Holger: how to improve performance? use epoll (libev) instead of select? Markus: maybe use epoll in own network code without Qt event loop?
• Holger: we never figured out where we loose time? where is Qt Network slow? use system test, benchmarks (oprofile, Mac: shark)…
• Markus: what features are missing in Qt? Siddharth: QNetworkDiskCache: needs to be improved, QNetworkCookieJar: persist?
• Better authentication credential handling
• SSL errors should be more verbose
• IPv6: listen to any address and IPv4 and IPv6: can listen to some interfaces, but not all. listen() should reveal more information: what succeeded, what not?
• DNS IPv6: long timeout, Markus: depends on OS, no setting for host name lookup time out
• custom socket options for mobile?
• WebKit zerocopy still pending