help with Firefox extension
- by Johnny Grass
I'm writing a Firefox extension that creates a socket server which will output the active tab's URL when a client makes a connection to it. I have the following code in my javascript file:
var serverSocket;
function startServer()
{
var listener =
{
onSocketAccepted : function(socket, transport)
{
try {
var outputString = gBrowser.currentURI.spec + "\n";
var stream = transport.openOutputStream(0,0,0);
stream.write(outputString,outputString.length);
stream.close();
} catch(ex2){ dump("::"+ex2); }
},
onStopListening : function(socket, status){}
};
try {
serverSocket = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/server-socket;1"]
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIServerSocket);
serverSocket.init(7055,true,-1);
serverSocket.asyncListen(listener);
} catch(ex){ dump(ex); }
document.getElementById("status").value = "Started";
}
startServer();
As it is, it works for multiple tabs in a single window. If I open multiple windows, it ignores the additional windows. I think it is creating a server socket for each window, but since they are using the same port, the additional sockets fail to initialize. I need it to create a server socket when the browser launches and continue running when I close the windows (Mac OS X). As it is, when I close a window but Firefox remains running, the socket closes and I have to restart firefox to get it up an running. How do I go about that?
