Save Attachment and send it

[Christopher K.]

Hi,

i am developing for my company an extension, which should get the
mailcontent, subject and attachments and send it to an Webserver.

I managed to get the mail-subject and body (maybe not the optimal way,
but that doesn't matter for now). I also managed to get the attachmentlist.

Now i don't know how to proceed. I need to save the attachment somehow
to send it afterwards to this webserver.

I should notice, I only need to send each attachment in one request.

My question is now: How do I save an attachment (to an temporary
folder)? And how can I send a file to a webserver? I send and receive
data per XMLHttpRequest, but XHR can't send files.

Greetings,
Christopher K.

[Andrew Sutherland]

On 05/14/2009 06:49 AM, Christopher K. wrote:
> Now i don't know how to proceed. I need to save the attachment somehow
> to send it afterwards to this webserver.

You don't actually need to save the attachment to disk; you can access a
stream of it.

I would suggest taking a look at the source code for the LookOut extension:

http://lookout.mozdev.org/

particuarly the save_attachment method in lookout.js:

http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/lookout/src/chrome/content/lookout.js?rev=HEAD

Andrew