Redirecting Request (nsiHttpChannel?) in Firefox Extensions

Question

I\'ve been trying at this for a long time now, and no good results.

var myObserver = {
    observe: function(subject, topic, data)
    {
        if (topic == \"h         


        

Answer 1

I've done it this way: stop nsIHttpChannel on "http-on-modify-request" event, get browser object for current window, call browser.loadURI.

var utils = require("sdk/window/utils");

function needsRedirect(url) {
    // to be implemented
    return true;
}

function generateNewUrl(url) {
    // to be implemented
    return "http://www.example.com/";
}

Cc["@mozilla.org/observer-service;1"]
    .getService(Ci.nsIObserverService)
    .addObserver({
        observe: function(subject, topic, data) {
            var channel = subject.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIHttpChannel);
            var url = channel.originalURI.spec;
            if (needsRedirect(url)) {
                //stop
                channel.cancel(Cr.NS_BINDING_ABORTED);

                //redirect
                var gBrowser = utils.getMostRecentBrowserWindow().gBrowser;
                var domWin = channel.notificationCallbacks.getInterface(Ci.nsIDOMWindow);
                var browser = gBrowser.getBrowserForDocument(domWin.top.document);
                browser.loadURI(generateNewUrl(url));

            }
        }
    }, "http-on-modify-request", false);