My extension works on a application, which requires user login. Once the user has logged in, I need to read the cookies and use them in my xmlhttprequests. So initially i need to check if the cookie is set, if not, I direct the user to the login page. Once logged in, I need to read the cookies and send it as part of mt further requests.

Can someone plese help me on how to read cookies from a xmlhttprequest or otherwise (if we dont even know the name of the cookie)

there is to function as getRequestHeader.. but what i need is something like that