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Craig McDaniel
Feb 22, 2013, 2:47:01 PM2/22/13
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I work on a Xul application is primarily a GWT (Google Web Toolkit (html+js)) app loaded via chrome:// url. However, at certain points our GWT app sends the user to an http:// url. We would like to be able to support file downloads from certain non-chrome sites, but according to the documentation here ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL/Tutorial/Open_and_Save_Dialogs ), the file picker only works from chrome URLs. Is there a way to bypass this restriction for certain http hosts?
allen...@gmail.com
Feb 23, 2013, 11:54:28 AM2/23/13
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On Saturday, February 23, 2013 3:47:01 AM UTC+8, Craig McDaniel wrote:
> I work on a Xul application is primarily a GWT (Google Web Toolkit (html+js)) app loaded via chrome:// url. However, at certain points our GWT app sends the user to an http:// url. We would like to be able to support file downloads from certain non-chrome sites, but according to the documentation here ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL/Tutorial/Open_and_Save_Dialogs ), the file picker only works from chrome URLs. Is there a way to bypass this restriction for certain http hosts?
Take a look at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Code_snippets/Interaction_between_privileged_and_non-privileged_pages
> I work on a Xul application is primarily a GWT (Google Web Toolkit (html+js)) app loaded via chrome:// url. However, at certain points our GWT app sends the user to an http:// url. We would like to be able to support file downloads from certain non-chrome sites, but according to the documentation here ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL/Tutorial/Open_and_Save_Dialogs ), the file picker only works from chrome URLs. Is there a way to bypass this restriction for certain http hosts?
It allows triggering events in chrome from html.
Craig McDaniel
Feb 25, 2013, 9:25:54 AM2/25/13
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Craig McDaniel
Feb 25, 2013, 5:17:59 PM2/25/13
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On Friday, February 22, 2013 2:47:01 PM UTC-5, Craig McDaniel wrote:
> I work on a Xul application is primarily a GWT (Google Web Toolkit (html+js)) app loaded via chrome:// url. However, at certain points our GWT app sends the user to an http:// url. We would like to be able to support file downloads from certain non-chrome sites, but according to the documentation here ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL/Tutorial/Open_and_Save_Dialogs ), the file picker only works from chrome URLs. Is there a way to bypass this restriction for certain http hosts?
I finally had the time to work up a test app and it almost worked. Apparently the browser download component is what I needed, not the file picker. However, it then popped up an error message about the DTD for the component. Turns out it needed brand.dtd and brand.properties files. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XULRunner_tips#Branding
> I work on a Xul application is primarily a GWT (Google Web Toolkit (html+js)) app loaded via chrome:// url. However, at certain points our GWT app sends the user to an http:// url. We would like to be able to support file downloads from certain non-chrome sites, but according to the documentation here ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL/Tutorial/Open_and_Save_Dialogs ), the file picker only works from chrome URLs. Is there a way to bypass this restriction for certain http hosts?
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