We just need to test whether it works and set the pref to true in http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/webapprt/prefs.js

> We just need to test whether it works How can we check for that?

You'd need to create a sample webapp that uses the UDPSocket API.

If nobody is working on this, I'd like to take on this bug

Please have a go. I am not working on this, just to make it clear.

Mr. AVGP - would you like to take a run at this?

Hey Mike, I'm Martin (Bugzilla for some reason doesn't let me change my name) and, yes, I'd like to go for it. I started with it and will give writing a web app that works on Desktop with UDP to verify it works

I don't know if a webapp is the right thing, though tests are always valuable. Marco, what do you think?

Uhm, quoting Marco from his previous comment: "You'd need to create a sample webapp that uses the UDPSocket API." - what else do you have in mind?

My apologies, I want to make sure that's the right approach for testing.

Yeah and that's right - I just wondered what else could be done to test it? An addon maybe?

(In reply to mr.avgp from comment #10) > Yeah and that's right - I just wondered what else could be done to test it? > An addon maybe? Marco is right, the definitive way to test this is by installing and launching a desktop open web app that uses the UDPSocket API. There are a number of environmental factors that mean testing this from an add-on or other mechanism won't be as good of a test.

Alright, that's what I tought, so we agree that an open web app for desktop is what we need. By the way, is there better docs for writing and testing an OWA on desktop than https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Marketplace/Options/Open_web_apps_for_desktop? Because it's a bit unclear to me, how I *locally* test an OWA for desktop without going through a marketplace or does https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Quickstart#Testing_on_Firefox_desktop also work for privileged apps (I think I need privileged to get UDPSockets, right?)?

On B2G we recently add a demo UPnP app (see Bug 1060250), it would be a good start trying it on desktop.

Per bug 1238079, we're going to disable the desktop web runtime and remove it from the codebase, so we won't fix these bugs in it.