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Investigate webRequestListeners for capturing HTML & PDFs #276

Closed mlissner closed 5 years ago

mlissner commented 5 years ago

I don't know why we do it the way we do. Maybe it's because we need to scrape the dom, but I suspect doing this with weblisteners would fix issues like #235 (unable to upload big docs), and #239 (other extensions screwing up the HTML).

This was suggested by a Mozilla developer:

If you want to upload a copy of clean initial HTML for a page, your best bet is probably to use a webRequest listener. That won't get you JS-generated content, but trying to capture JS-generated content is heavily timing-dependent anyway, and you'll never be able to capture it without the possibility of interference from other extensions.

mlissner commented 5 years ago

webRequestListeners are nuked in v3 of Chrome's manifest. Not an OK plan.