ajax firefox,Ajax In Firefox Plugin

Here's a simple snippet that does XHR request, WITHOUT cookies (due to flag Ci.nsIRequest.LOAD_ANONYMOUS can remove to send with cookies) (MDN :: Info on flags]. Copy this first code block in, then see usage examples below.

var {Cu: utils, Cc: classes, Ci: instances} = Components;

Cu.import('resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm');

function xhrGetPost(url, post_data, cb) {

let xhr = Cc["@mozilla.org/xmlextras/xmlhttprequest;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsIXMLHttpRequest);

let handler = ev => {

evf(m => xhr.removeEventListener(m, handler, !1));

switch (ev.type) {

case 'load':

if (xhr.status == 200) {

cb(xhr.response);

break;

}

default:

Services.prompt.alert(null, 'XHR Error', 'Error Fetching Package: ' + xhr.statusText + ' [' + ev.type + ':' + xhr.status + ']');

break;

}

};

let evf = f => ['load', 'error', 'abort'].forEach(f);

evf(m => xhr.addEventListener(m, handler, false));

xhr.mozBackgroundRequest = true;

if (post_data == undefined) {

post_data = null;

}

if (post_data) {

xhr.open('POST', url, true);

} else {

xhr.open('GET', url, true);

}

xhr.channel.loadFlags |= Ci.nsIRequest.LOAD_ANONYMOUS | Ci.nsIRequest.LOAD_BYPASS_CACHE | Ci.nsIRequest.INHIBIT_PERSISTENT_CACHING;

//xhr.responseType = "arraybuffer"; //dont set it, so it returns string, you dont want arraybuffer. you only want this if your url is to a zip file or some file you want to download and make a nsIArrayBufferInputStream out of it or something

xhr.send(post_data);

}

Example usage of for POST:

var href = 'http://www.bing.com/'

xhrGetPost(href, 'post_data1=blah&post_data2=blah_blah', data => {

Services.prompt.alert(null, 'XHR Success', data);

});

Example usage of for GET:

var href = 'http://www.bing.com/'

xhrGetPost(href, null, data => {

Services.prompt.alert(null, 'XHR Success', data);

});