Hi Agi and team,
as a Mozilla consultant who spent 20
years helping companies create products based on Mozilla, I know
that Jochen's request is a fairly common requirement.
For example, one client of mine didn't
trust the network (including DNS) and wanted a web browser that
tunnels all requests through their own server. Similar to what
Opera mobile and Chrome Android do in the "accelerated" proxy
mode. The normal HTTP proxy protocols are not sufficient (e.g.
leak DNS) and they wanted their own wire protocol.
Another common requirement is to simply
stop and block all network requests apart from those to a specific
server or domain, for security purposes. You might not want these
requests to fail, but to return dummy data, to avoid apps
breaking. This is important for dedicated browsers that e.g. wrap
a single web application. You might call it Kiosk mode.
Another purpose is to analyze web
sites. You run a given website and analyze their behavior,
specifically the network requests it makes. You log all that and
then you can e.g. security analyze them.
All of the above are real-world
examples of past clients I had, and actual products that were
built based on Mozilla.
It would be good to have such a
standard API. It will be a common request for many use cases where
one would use GeckoView.
Kind regards,
Ben
On 21.11.19 19:38, Agi Sferro wrote:
Hi Jochen,Could you expand a little bit on what exactly are you trying to do? It will help us give you a better answer.
In general, we don't currently support that level of control on network requests outside of a WebExtension.
Thanks,Agi
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:26 AM Emily Toop <et...@mozilla.com> wrote:
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From: Jochen van Waasen <joc...@vanwaasen.ch>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 14:16
Subject: GeckoView
To: <et...@mozilla.com>
Hi Emily
I would like to use GeckoView but need to intercept all request that are coming out of a webpage (URL, resource, XMLHttpRequest, requests coming from inside an iFrame).
Can this be done with GeckoView?
The WebExtension is probably not what I need as I need to stop the request/load and process it differently.
Ideally I could register a WebExecutor globally that gives me this kind of control.
Best Regards
Jochen
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