Question

I have been trying for a while to access a restless interface within a firefox addon. After reading in a bunch of places I came accross getJASONP jquery function that gets around the cross-origin resource sharing problem but it feels like a hack. Isn’t there a more elegant way of getting get and post data with jquery through a firefox plug in. I would be really surprised if a hack was the only way.

thanks.

$(document).ready(function () {
        //var url = "http://132.205.237.32:8182/services";
        var url ="http://127.0.0.1/learning.php";
      $.getJSON(url+'?callback=?', {type:"json"}, function (results) {
          alert(results.service1);
     });
    });

Answer 1

You just access them – e.g. using XMLHttpRequest. Firefox extensions aren’t bound by same-origin policy and are allowed to request any address from the web.

A side-note: Please never use JSONP in a Firefox extension, it’s a security vulnerability. By using JSONP you are running some code from the web with the privileges of your extension.