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Jez
Jez

Reputation: 165

Sending POST data using the Firefox Request API

Hello I'd be super grateful for help with this Firefox API question.

I have a webpage listening for a POST variable called sausage:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<body>
<?php   
echo $_POST['sausage'];
?>

Using the Request API in the Firefox addon SDK, I've made a button which is supposed to load my webpage while sending the POST variable sausage:

var buttons = require('sdk/ui/button/action');
var tabs = require("sdk/tabs");
var Request = require("sdk/request").Request;

 var button = buttons.ActionButton({
    id: "mozilla-link",
    label: "Visit Mozilla",
    icon: {
        "16": "./icon-16.png",
        "32": "./icon-32.png",
        "64": "./icon-64.png"
        },
    onClick: handleClick
});

function handleClick(state)
{
    tabs.open({
        url: "http://localhost/home.php/",
        onOpen: runScript
    });
}

function runScript(tab)
{
    Request({
      url: "http://localhost/home.php/",
      content: { sausage: 'sausage' }
    }).post();
}

This is loading the target page, but not sending the POST variable, so the php echo function throws an error. Please can someone explain what's gone wrong. I especially would like to avoid using any of the lower level API functions because this looks like the kind of job Request should eat for breakfast. Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1668

Answers (1)

therealjeffg
therealjeffg

Reputation: 5830

The request api doesn't send the variable when opening the tab, it instead makes a second request to the same url. Check your server logs or the browser console, you should see two requests every time you click that button.

Upvotes: 1

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