[webkit-dev] WebKit blog post proposal: Remote debugging with Web Inspector.

[David Kilzer]

Hi Pavel,

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Dave


On Apr 29, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Pavel Feldman wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I started drafting the blog post "Remote Debugging with Web Inspector": http://www.webkit.org/blog/?p=1620&preview=true.
> 
> I'd like to cover following topics there:
> 
>     - ability to use Web Inspector front-end with remote / embedded devices
>     - ability to implement alternate front-ends for IDEs
>     - share the update on the protocol work progress
> 
> Calling for the early feedback.
> 
> Thanks
> Pavel
> 
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Pavel Feldman <pfeldman at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> As some of you know, we are working on a remote debugging feature in Web Inspector. There are many good reasons behind the project including the following:
> 
> - Debugging WebKit on embedded devices
> - Shaping up a good protocol for ourselves
> - Introducing external SDKs on top of the protocol for IDE integrations and alternate front-ends
> 
> We've had serialized interaction with the out-of-process inspector for quite a while in Chromium. We were upstreaming it into WebKit and have reached an important milestone recently: all the interaction between the inspected page and inspector is entirely serialized on the WebKit level. All the embedder needs to do is to implement a socket that would serve the inspector front-end files and provide our messaging with appropriate transport.
> 
> Now this socket is likely to be platform-specific, implemented on the WebKit and/or host browser levels. It also makes more sense to implement socket on mobile platforms first. However, we've done a proof-of-concept implementation in Chromium and it is now in a demoable state! See the screencast at http://screencast.com/t/YTI2OTY4YTEt. It has Chromium nightly to the left + WebKit nightly to the right. WebKit nightly connects remotely to Chromium over HTTP on the port 9222 and does remote debugging including DOM inspection, breakpoints and such. The communication is established by means of a WebSocket. The interesting thing about the implementation is that inspector front-end is fetched from the host browser, so that there is no mess with protocol versioning and no need in exposing the interaction protocol any time soon.
> 
> So I made the demo and it looked cool. I thought maybe we do a blog post on it. The blog post would draw attention to the Web Inspector and its progress, share the remote debugging vision with the interested parties and would simply look cool. Front-end is working as a pure HTML5 application (obviously full of WebKit-specific styles, but still) which is impressive. Now the project is nowhere complete in terms of finalizing the message format and the protocol itself, but there is no intention to expose it right now. We'd like to let it live with fetchable front-end and mature before we expose the protocol and commit to any level of interface support.
> 
> What do you think, is it ready for a blog post?
> 
> Thanks
> Pavel
> 
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