1325278 - Optionally provide access to responseBody for webextensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1255894

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Mike Zelina]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161129173726

Steps to reproduce:

The full response of an HTTP request is not available to the webextension framework.



Expected results:

It would be nice to optionally have a responseBody attribute accessible in the browser.webRequest.onCompleted listener.

Comment 1

[Mike Zelina]

Attachment: Patch to optionally add responseBody accessible in the onCompleted listener.

Comment 2

[Mike Zelina]

The patch I sent has the responseBody in byte array format. It's the responsiblity of the webextension to, for example, gunzip content if it's zipped. I figured the burden shouldn't be on firefox to decode the data since asking for this will already add a burden to the browser.

Comment 3

[Mike Zelina]

Attachment: Simple webextension to print the responseBody to the browser console.

If the content-encoding is gzip, this extension will inflate to plaintext. Otherwise, the responseBody will be shown as a byte array.