Mozilla XML - Intercepting redirects in XMLHttpRequest

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Intercepting redirects in XMLHttpRequest

Milamber³

2005-08-08, 7:34 pm

Hi all,

I am trying to write an extension that makes use of XMLHttpRequest - the
reason I want to use this is because I need to send extra headers to the
server when I make the requests. Occasionally, the reply will be a 302
redirect which I want to intercept and make the current window navigate to
that url. I can't see any way of doing this.

I am sure that there is something I am missing. If anyone knows of a way to
do this - ideally so that I can get the header of the redirect (there will
be other information in the header that woiuld be useful for me) then I
would be really grateful.

Cheers,

Milamber³

Heikki Toivonen

2005-08-08, 11:20 pm

> I am trying to write an extension that makes use of XMLHttpRequest - the
> reason I want to use this is because I need to send extra headers to the
> server when I make the requests. Occasionally, the reply will be a 302
> redirect which I want to intercept and make the current window navigate to
> that url. I can't see any way of doing this.

XMLHttpRequest will automatically follow redirects. So I guess in your
situation you need a way to figure out from the returned data if there
was a redirect and then navigate the current window if so.

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Heikki Toivonen