Allows deferral of a URLRequest just before talking to the network, at

net/http/http_transaction.h

Index: net/http/http_transaction.h
diff --git a/net/http/http_transaction.h b/net/http/http_transaction.h
index 3776998259af3f3d5223ea971922d288f5921988..f4a8f76fba0a750cba7ec16e8b4546f7534eae8c 100644
--- a/net/http/http_transaction.h
+++ b/net/http/http_transaction.h
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ class X509Certificate;
 // answered.  Cookies are assumed to be managed by the caller.
 class NET_EXPORT_PRIVATE HttpTransaction {
  public:
+  // The bool* is used to inform the caller if it needs to defer or not.

[mmenke, 2014/01/07 19:44:05]

I think this could be clearer.

Maybe something like:

// If |*defer| is set to true, the transaction will wait until
// ResumeNetworkStart is called before establishing a connection.
typedef base::Callback<void(bool* defer)> BeforeNetworkStartCallback;

[jkarlin, 2014/01/07 20:10:03]

Done.

+  typedef base::Callback<void(bool*)> BeforeNetworkStartCallback;
+
   // Stops any pending IO and destroys the transaction object.
   virtual ~HttpTransaction() {}
 
@@ -144,6 +147,13 @@ class NET_EXPORT_PRIVATE HttpTransaction {
   // Start(). Ownership of |create_helper| remains with the caller.
   virtual void SetWebSocketHandshakeStreamCreateHelper(
       WebSocketHandshakeStreamBase::CreateHelper* create_helper) = 0;
+
+  // Set the callback to receive notification just before network use.
+  virtual void SetBeforeNetworkStartCallback(
+      const BeforeNetworkStartCallback& callback) = 0;
+
+  // Resumes the transaction after being deferred.
+  virtual int ResumeNetworkStart() = 0;
 };
 
 }  // namespace net