Upload a File in a Google Chrome Extension

Question

I\'m writing an extension for Chrome, and I need to upload a file from the page the user is currently on to my server to be processed, I cannot figure out how to upload the

Answer 1

The simplest solutions seems to be for your extension to send the file's URI to your server, and then your server-side code will download it from the page into the server and process it.

Create a server-side script like http://mysite.com/process.php?uri=[file's URI goes here] that will process the given file. Use AJAX to call this URL (more info at http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html ). The script will return the processed file, which you could then use in your extension.