Write the firefox extension

[LeoIannacone]

It seems that calling py is possible also in firefox

Extension examples:

• https://github.com/linkinpark342/firefoxnotify (no longer work)

Here a snip on how to call Py:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25027110/running-python-script-from-firefox-extension however, it launches a process every time, while chrome uses stdio streams to communicate with native applications (if this was not possible in Firefox, a dbus interface may workaround this issue)

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[LeoIannacone]

We may need to change the host to get plugin work properly with Firefox.

It seems Firefox does not have a simple "pipe" process API (that's what we do in chrome/ium), so we cannot simple write/read to the stdin/stdout of a Process. Some code has been written here https://github.com/bit/subprocess to handle with this scenario, but I prefer to look for another solution rather than include that in our code.

So, the other solution could be, instead of read/write (pipe) the goopg_native_process, make a HTTP server which parses the request URL and serves the result into socket.

For instance, extension does a GET over:

http://localhost:40094/gmail/command=verify&id=123456789abcdef

the host (the http_server) parse the URL, handles the command, and return the result in a JSON format

{
  "command": "verify",
  "id": "123456789abcdef"
  "result": {
     // Here the result
  }
}

Messages are already exchanged in JSON fomat, so what we have to do is just modify the host/*main.py script...

Thoughts ?

[davesteele]

If you modify the host, consider adding error message text to the info sent back to the browser, for presentation.