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Arian
Arian

Reputation: 325

When using the mozilla firefox sdk, how do you access Request in a worker script?

I want to be able to send out a request from my plugin (with the cookies of the page)

var widgets = require("sdk/widget");
var tabs = require("sdk/tabs");
var self = require("sdk/self");
var Request = require("sdk/request").Request;
var widget = widgets.Widget({
id: "mozilla-link",
label: "Mozilla website",
contentURL: "http://www.favicon.cc/logo3d/33101.png",
onClick: function () {
    var worker = tabs.activeTab.attach({
        contentScriptFile: self.data.url('scanner.js')

    });

    worker.port.emit('scanner');
 }
});

and the worker script

self.port.on("scanner", function () {
var http = Request({ url:'..', onComplete: function(Response) {}}).get();
 });

but I am told that request is not defined... even if i try to define it in the worker script.

ReferenceError: Request is not defined

Upvotes: 0

Views: 285

Answers (1)

therealjeffg
therealjeffg

Reputation: 5830

page workers are just like any other web page, so in the worker you would use xmlhttprequest. if you want to use request, you must do so in your addon's main.js file. If you want to make cross-domain requests, you will need to set the permissions property in your package.json file:

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/blob/master/doc/dev-guide-source/guides/content-scripts/cross-domain.md

Upvotes: 1

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