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POCreate Firefox Addon to Watch and modify XHR requests & reponses
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copied!<p>Update: I guess the subject gave a wrong notion that I'm looking for an existing addon. This is a custom problem and I do NOT want an existing solution.<br> I wish to WRITE (or more appropriately, modify and existing) Addon. </p> <p>Here's my requirement: </p> <ul> <li>I want my addon to work for a particular site only</li> <li>The data on the pages are encoded using a 2 way hash </li> <li>A good deal of info is loaded by XHR requests, and sometimes displayed in animated bubbles etc. </li> <li><p>The current version of my addon parses the page via XPath expressions, decodes the data, and replaces them </p></li> <li><p>The issue comes in with those bubblified boxes that are displayed on mouse-over event </p></li> <li>Thus, I realized that it might be a good idea to create an XHR bridge that could listen to all the data and decode/encode on the fly </li> <li>After a couple of searches, I came across nsITraceableInterface[1][2][3] </li> </ul> <p>Just wanted to know if I am on the correct path. If "yes", then kindly provide any extra pointers and suggestions that may be appropriate; and if "No", then.. well, please help with correct pointers :) </p> <p>Thanks,<br> Bipin. </p> <p>[1]. <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NsITraceableChannel" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NsITraceableChannel</a><br> [2]. <a href="http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/nsitraceablechannel-intercept-http-traffic/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/nsitraceablechannel-intercept-http-traffic/</a><br> [3]. <a href="http://www.ashita.org/howto-xhr-listening-by-a-firefox-addon/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ashita.org/howto-xhr-listening-by-a-firefox-addon/</a> </p>

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