overstimulate

Supposedly the domain jail does not apply for file:/// urls. Mozilla documents in their XML Extras page that you should use

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalBrowserRead");

to enable xmlhttprequest calls to foreign domains. Unfortunately it still fails to open a request to a http:// url,

req.open( 'GET', 'http://overstimulate.com' );

Any clues? Bad docs? Bug in mozilla? (it works in Safari)

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1. Sat, 10 Sep 2005 Carey Evans says:
   It works for me with the code below on Firefox 1.5 beta.

   <br  />function run_test() {
   <br  /> netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalBrowserRead");
   <br  /> var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
   <br  /> req.onreadystatechange = function () { handle(req); };
   <br  /> req.open("GET", "http://www.google.com/");
   <br  /> req.send(null);
   <br  />}
   <br  />function handle(req) {
   <br  /> if (req.readyState == 4) {
   <br  />  alert(req.status + ' ' + req.statusText);
   <br  /> }
   <br  />}

   The JavaScript Console window generally includes enough detail for me to work out why something isn't working. Speaking of which, your orange.css file gives: Error: Expected color but found 'fd0'.
2. Sat, 10 Sep 2005 Jesse Andrews says:
   Carey, Thanks for both notes. Fixed the missing # in the css. And for some reason your javascript works for me ... My test code was very similiar but I'll have to check more when I get a little more sleep.

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