Firebug cannot do this. Chromebug would like to do this, but no one
asked it to try as far as I know.
jjb

On Dec 25, 6:39 pm, joshz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in responding. I went on a vacation and came down
> with a nasty flu afterward :-(
>
> In my case, the Ajax request was made by the Firefox extension itself
> to a given server site, not by the Javascript code in the loaded page.
> Does this address your issue with the third-party site?
>
> What I expect to capture is the communication between the Firefox
> extension and the given server site that services the Firefox
> extension. Can Firebug do this, or do I have to use a different tool?
>
> Thanks!
> Joshua
>
> On Nov 26, 12:23 pm, niver <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Just a question - the XmlHTTPRequest object security model prevents
> > requests to be issued to a third-party URL. Your system obviously uses
> > an alternate method, maybe IFRAME posting or an XSS hack to
> > communicate with the third-party site. In that case, it's probably
> > understandable Firebug does not display that as JSON/Ajax requests
> > since it does not use the XmlHTTPRequest object.
>
> > Please point the obvious if I'm missing something...
>
> > Regards
>
> > On Nov 26, 3:12 am, joshz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Folks,
>
> > > Firebug seems to be able to display only JSON request/response to/from
> > > the site the browser is currently on. However, I have an extension
> > > which is using Ajax to a third-party site, but this traffic doesn't
> > > seem to be captured. This makes debugging the extension pretty hard. I
> > > did notice that there is "sites" specification under "net" and
> > > "console" tabs, but they don't seem to have any effect after I added
> > > the third-party site to the list. BTW, talking to the third-party site
> > > is over https. Would it make any difference, or am I missing something
> > > in using Firebug?
>
> > > Thank you very much for any tips you may have regarding this issue!
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