[Project_owners] send data to a web page and process it without loading to browser.

Jesper Staun Hansen jesper at heroes-addon.dk
Thu Jul 24 03:40:51 PDT 2008


I was considering how firefox 2 handles it. Default setting to false or 
true?

Marco Pivetta wrote:
> From the MDC:
>
>
>       mozBackgroundRequest
>
> This property can be used to prevent authentication and bad 
> certificate dialogs from popping up for the request. Also the request 
> will not be canceled if the window it belongs to is closed. This 
> property works for chrome code only. New in Firefox 3 
> <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_3_for_developers>
>
> There's nothing else about it :(
>
> 2008/7/24 Jesper Staun Hansen <jesper at heroes-addon.dk 
> <mailto:jesper at heroes-addon.dk>>:
>
>     Whats the story behind mozBackgroundRequest?
>
>     Marco Pivetta wrote:
>
>         Forgot to tell you that "req.mozBackgroundRequest=true;" works
>         with FF3 only ;)
>
>         2008/7/24 Marco Pivetta <ocramius at gmail.com
>         <mailto:ocramius at gmail.com> <mailto:ocramius at gmail.com
>         <mailto:ocramius at gmail.com>>>:
>
>
>            I use tons of AJAX in my StOgame Extension ;)
>
>            As an example:
>
>                    var req=new XMLHttpRequest();
>                    var postdata="l="+language+"&u="+universe; //MY DATA...
>                    req.mozBackgroundRequest=true; //REQUEST DOESN'T
>         GENERATE
>            POPUPS AND/OR CERTIFICATE AGREEMENTS ETC...
>                    req.onload=function()
>                        {
>            //CHECK READYSTATE
>                            if(
>                                (req.status==200)
>                                &&(req.readyState==4)
>                            )
>                            {
>            //CHECK IF PHP DIDNT CRASH XD
>                                if(parseInt(req.responseText)==1)
>                                {
>                                    var
>            expiration_timestamps=req.responseText.split(",");
>                                    var playerranksstatusupdate=AccountDB
>                                        .createStatement
>                                        (
>                                           //LET'S DO SOME COOL STUFF WITH
>            SQLite ;)
>                                        );
>                                           //ETC...
>                                  }
>                            }
>                            else
>                            {
>                                //ERROR: 404, PHP, SQL, ETC...
>                            }
>                        };
>                    req.onprogress=function(e)
>                        {
>                            //alert("position: "+e.position+"\nototalSize:
>            "+e.totalSize)
>                        };
>                    req.onreadystatechange=function()
>                        {
>                            //alert("readyState:
>         "+req.readyState+"\nstatus:
>            "+req.status);
>                        };
>                    req.onerror=function()
>                        {
>                            //alert("error!!!")
>                        };
>                    req.open('POST',
>          
>          "http://www.stogame.net/stogalaxy/test/rankupdatestatus.php",
>         true);
>                    
>          req.setRequestHeader('Content-Type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
>            //USED FOR POST DATA
>                    req.setRequestHeader("Content-length",
>         postdata.length);
>            //USED FOR POST DATA
>                    req.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
>                    req.send(postdata);
>                }
>
>            2008/7/24 Silver Surfer <silver.surfer444 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:silver.surfer444 at gmail.com>
>            <mailto:silver.surfer444 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:silver.surfer444 at gmail.com>>>:
>
>
>
>
>                        On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Shivanand
>         Sharma / Varun
>                <varun21 at gmail.com <mailto:varun21 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:varun21 at gmail.com <mailto:varun21 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>                    use hidden iframe?
>
>                    On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Silver Surfer
>                    <silver.surfer444 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:silver.surfer444 at gmail.com>
>                    <mailto:silver.surfer444 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:silver.surfer444 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>                        Hi Friends,
>                        I'm developing an new extension and I need to send
>                        some data(user input) to a web page and do some
>                        processing in there without loading that web
>         page to
>                        the browser. ( The functionality I need is
>         similar to
>                        the functionality of delicious firefox extension. )
>                        But I still don't have an idea to call to
>         script in a
>                        web browser without loading it to the browser.
>         I would
>                        be very please if anyone of you can help me for
>         this
>                        problems.
>                                        thanks & regards,
>                        SS
>
>                        --                ~Silver Surfer~
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>                thanks Shivanand,
>                it's a good idea. But I have another idea, If we can
>         use AJAX
>                in developing firefox extensions, then I think I can do
>         what I
>                want.
>                        Can we use AJAX for developing extensions (
>         Most probably I
>                think we can, but need to confirm that idea).
>                If so I think I can call to a PHP page with relevant
>         user data
>                and do the processing of that data.
>                Am I correct friends?
>
>
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