>From JS, Right now the only way to access cookie is via content script.
Many extensions would be interested in checking the presence of a cookie to detect login and other states. A notification for cookie changes is also helpful, This way extensions would get to know about it even if it is happening outside web page, eg: "clear all cookies" -- Sibil Mohammed Some sort of notification on cookie changes would be really useful. If the user clears the cookies from the Chrome On Nov 26, 2:05 am, Anders Sahlin <malak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed it could disrupt the user. > > My method of choice would have been to just parse the atom feed > generated by Gmail, which uses simple URL authentication allowing me > to receive a specific users unread items. Unfortunately, whenever a > user is logged in to Gmail the feed URL automatically redirects to > that account's feed, ignoring the authentication and removing the > possibility to access multiple accounts. > > Another approach that I have tried is aggregating the feed via a PHP > IMAP script. This works pretty well but I don't think people would > like the idea of sending their username and password off to some > external non-Google site (and I wouldn't want to be the one hosting > that script considering the number of requests and amount of data > transferred). > > A third approach would be to just do a sort of proxy for the Gmail > feed, so that it doesn't recognize that a user is logged in on the > accessing client. My web host doesn't allow external file access so > that method was also scrapped (dito on the username / password issue). > > So it came down to this last attempt involving storing and modifying > cookies, just like the Gmail Manager add-on for Firefox does. But I'm > no good at the NPAPI (or C++ for that matter) so I agree that an easy- > to-use JS API would be very helpful for me. I guess my users will have > to make do with single-account functionality for now! :) > > Thanks for your effort, > Anders > > On Nov 25, 9:40 pm, Adam Barth <aba...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > I see. That sounds difficult to do without disrupting the user as > > they use Gmail. > > > One option to consider is using a content script in Gmail to read and > > write document.cookie. > > > I agree that a proper cookie API (and, perhaps, the ability to set the > > Cookie header on XMLHttpRequests) would be helpful for this use case. > > > Thanks, > > Adam > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Anders Sahlin <malak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I want to be able to store and replace cookies so that my Gmail > > > Checker extension can support multiple accounts. > > > > On Nov 25, 9:15 pm, Adam Barth <aba...@chromium.org> wrote: > > >> Can you explain what you're trying to achieve with cookie access? > > >> There might be a way to do what you want with the current API. > > > >> Adam > > > >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Anders Sahlin <malak...@gmail.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> > I'm also interested in cookie manipulation outside of the page domain > > >> > (i.e. from the background page of an extension). I think it could be > > >> > done with an NPAPI plugin but I have no time to sit down and do the C+ > > >> > + coding required for that. A JS approach would be preferable, if such > > >> > exists. > > > >> > On Nov 24, 10:16 pm, Karen <karent...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> That is, given a domain and cookie name, I would like to be able to > > >> >> fetch the cookie value (if it is set). > > > >> >> Or do I have to be on a page of that domain? > > > >> > -- > > > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > >> > Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. > > >> > To post to this group, send email to > > >> > chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. > > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> > chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > >> > For more options, visit this group > > >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Chromium-extensions" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
