James,
Remote chrome is a proposed feature that hasn't actually been
implemented yet. It is possible to configure Mozilla to allow remote XUL
files (loaded as content, not as chrome) to call XPCOM interfaces. Try
adding these lines to the prefs.js file in your user profile directory
while Mozilla is not running:
user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.fullaccess.id",
"http://myhost.com:1234";);
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.fullaccess.granted",
"UniversalXPConnect");
Replace "http://myhost.com:1234"; with the hostname and port from which
your xul content will be served. "http://localhost:1234"; should work
fine if that's what you're using.
good luck,
Mitch Stoltz
James Warner wrote:
> I apologize if this question has already been answered completely, but
> I've been unable to find any definitive documentation and my own Xul
> experiments have left me somewhat confused.
>
> Anyway, my question is whether it is possible to disable the security
> manager so that Xul files can be sent over an http url and then
> execute XpCom style interface's inside of the JavaScript code
> associated with that Xul file. I know that I can use chrome to
> accomplish such a thing if the chrome is set up properly inside of the
> mozilla chrome directory, but that is a different thing entirely than
> doing it over http. Anyway ideally what I would like to be able to do
> is get the Xul Data over http and post it back to another application
> listening on a different Socket. I have seen references to remote
> chrome, which looks like it allows for sending Xul remotely, but I am
> wondering what setup is required to allow remote chrome and if it
> allows for executing XpConnect/XpCom interfaces or if that is
> prohibited as well?
>
> BTW I do realize that from a Web Browser security standpoint this is
> not a desirable thing to do, but from the implementation of a
> generalized application's development toolkit it would seem that being
> able to do something like this would be desirable (at least for my
> current project it seem's like a great thing to do).
>
> Thank's in Advance for the Input,
>
> James Warner
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
