Re: Re-asking: a weaklist that doesn't work and an object with elements that can't be copied or queried

On 2/22/21 2:20 AM, this is what R.Wieser wrote:
> Al,
> 
>> Sorry, as much as I'm a programmer I never saw any mention of writing code
>> for FF.
> 
> I thought that the choice of newsgroup would have been a bit of a dead
> give-away ?   Besides it being specified in the referred-to thread ofcourse.
> 
I don't see any links anywhere.  Unless some thread didn't get to my thunderbird.
With this post, there are only 7 posts total and none have any links.

>> And what you were posting was, sorry to say, way over my head far enough I
>> had no idea what you were writing.
> 
> :-)  a XUL addon is just a bit of JS that ties some (complexly-named) FF API
> functions together.
> 
> All that I did was to ask FF to call my function whenever a new web resource
> was received ("http-on-examine-response"), so that I could extract, from the
> object it supplied as the first argument to my callback function, the
> webpages HTTP status value.
> 
> Have you done any JS at all ?   In that case the "object-dump-javascript"
> code in the link I provided in the initial message (which could be used
> anywhere, including on a webpage) should not be too hard to follow.
> 
> And by the way : JS is just a "tool" language for me, which I seldom use
> (just GreaseMonkey and XUL scripts) and as such consider myself barely a
> novice in it.  Luckily my google-fu most never lets me down when I need to
> figure something out. :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
> 
> 

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