[Greasemonkey] Getting currently signed on user without parsing html or dom

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 5/26/06, daddydave <daddydave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anything else I might check to find some way to get the signed on
> username from the server directly? I know I am probably grasping at
> straws here.

Generally that's handled with cookies, but ma.gnolia's are pretty
opaque.  And even then, it's not generally the user name but rather
the ID or session handle (which then has the user id).

I think parsing the html is about as good as you'll get.