Firefox add-on SDK: Get http response headers

Question

I\'m new to add-on development and I\'ve been struggling with this issue for a while now. There are some questions here that are somehow related but they haven\'t helped me

Answer 1

You're pretty much there, take a look at the sample code here for more things you can do.

  onExamineResponse: function (oHttp)
  {  
        try
       {
         var header_value = oHttp.getResponseHeader("<the_header_that_i_need>"); 
         // URI is the nsIURI of the response you're looking at 
         // and spec gives you the full URL string
         var url = oHttp.URI.spec;
       }
       catch(err)
       {
         console.log(err);
       }
   }

Also people often need to find the tab related, which this answers Finding the tab that fired an http-on-examine-response event