--Richard
On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
> An FYI on implementation:
>
> The first pre-beta version of Firefox 4.0, released today, includes a minimal version of HELD, as a location provider for the W3C Geolocation API. The profile of HELD implemented is as follows:
> -- Requests have no <locationType>, but they do have a <measurements> object with a set of WiFi measurements
> -- The only responses that are used are ones that contain a <gs:Circle>, representing a point with an uncertainty radius.
> -- Civic addresses and location URIs are not used.
>
> HELD is not enabled by defuault. To use it:
> 1. Open about:config
> 2. Set geo.wifi.protocol = 1
> 3. Set geo.wifi.uri to the URI of a HELD server. For testing, I have been using <http://geopriv.dreamhosters.com/cgi-bin/lis4.pl>, which proxies requests through to the Google location server.
>
> Once this is set up, queries to the W3C Geolocation API should initiate a HELD query to the specified server.
>
> You can download the pre-release builds here:
> <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/>
>
> Finally, of course, this being pre-beta software, there's a minor bug to fix. Inside the 'components' directory for Firefox, find NetworkGeolocationProvider.js, and change line 354 from this:
> switch (this.protocol) {
> to this:
> switch (protocol) {
> Everything should of course work perfectly :)
>
> --Richard
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