Re: get HTTP Document with XHR

Thanks for your reply. 
The pages the program loads are all HTML.
Some servers require special strings in the request header for 
authentication (in addition to cookies). Also for Apache directives:
        http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/directives.html

So there is no way to map the ZUL_Document to HTML_Document?
What about other methods for inserting/reading  the request/response header
other than the XMLHttpRequest?

Thanks,
 -faj


Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> faj wrote:
>> The current code uses the loadURI() to load a page. However, to be able
>> to
>> insert custom http request to the header, the new code needs to use the 
>> the XMLHttpRequest instead.
> 
> Why, exactly?
> 
>> After the page is loaded, the following information are needed:
>> 
>>    var doc = getWebNavigation().document;
>>    ....
>>    doc.childNodes.length
>>    doc.childNodes[...].nodeType
>>    doc.childNodes[...].textContent
>>    doc.childNodes[...].tagName
>>    doc.childNodes[...].attributes[...]....
>>    etc.
> 
> For an XML document, you can use the responseXML of the XHR.  But if 
> it's HTML, you lose.
> 
> -Boris
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