[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 35589] New: Change the way of prefetching DNS to allow prefetching function to use full URL

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35589

           Summary: Change the way of prefetching DNS to allow prefetching
                    function to use full URL
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.5
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Platform
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: jmillan at igalia.com


At this moment the DNS prefetching is handled by a prefetchDNS function, which
receives the host name which may be resolved.
libsoup (HTTP library used by WebKit GTK) has a different approach: a function
called soup_session_prepare_for_uri which takes the full URL as an argument, at
now it only does DNS prefetching, but it will soon also have proxy resolution
and prefetching (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605065 ).
By having the full URL as an argument, the function can be expanded in the
future (cache, etc.).
However, as WebKit DNS prefetching function does only have the host name as a
parameter, a fake URI (http://hostname) is sent to
soup_session_prepare_for_uri, so the function cannot use the information given
by the rest of the URI.

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