GSoC/2019/StatusReports/PrasenjitKumarShaw

Project

DataSync in Falkon

Mentor

David Rosca

Project Summary

The goal of this project is to enable data sync in Falkon browser. Almost all modern web browsers have the ability to sync user data like history, bookmarks, passwords, etc. to another instance of that browser. Falkon doesn't have that ability yet. This projects aims at using Firefox Accounts to sync user data.

Milestones To Achieve

1. Add sync tab in Preferences and load Firefox Accounts Login Page.

2. Establish Communication with Firefox login page.

3. Implement the methods to fetch sessionToken and sync keys.

4. Implement class for HAWK requests. (HAWK request is used for authenticated communication with the Firefox Accounts Server.)

5. Implement BSO class. (BSO or Basic Storage Object, wraps user data, and is stored on the Firefox Server.)

6. Implement methods to setup the Firefox Sync account and fetch Url of Storage server.

7. Convert user data to BSO objects.

8. Implement the sync logic.

Status Report

1. Add sync tab in Preferences and load Firefox Accounts Login Page: ACHIEVED as on 3 June 2019

2. Establish Communication with Firefox login page: ACHIEVED as on 12 June 2019

3. Implement the methods to fetch sessionToken and sync keys: ACHIEVED as on 25 June 2019

4. Implement class for HAWK requests: ACHIEVED as on 18 July 2019

5. Implement methods to setup the Firefox Sync account and fetch Url of Storage server: "In Progress"

6. Implement BSO class: To Do

7. Convert user data to BSO objects: To Do

8. Implement the sync logic: To Do

Branch

https://cgit.kde.org/falkon.git/log/?h=pshaw

Commits

About Me

I am Prasenjit Kumar Shaw, pursuing Bachelors of Computer Science Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

My Blog: https://prasenjit.github.io

IRC Nick: prasenjit

Email: [email protected]