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| author | Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org> | 2015-03-23 23:19:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org> | 2015-03-25 20:08:48 +0100 |
| commit | 92ed83c72e2e1006bd2c94cbe02870f7d2404cae (patch) | |
| tree | 4e3ec6ae0e28c0fa2c4767170d109cb8982cfab2 /xul-ext/protocol | |
| parent | 07b84b96bee626471db5f5dc284f4cd00a0d56ff (diff) | |
Use about:config to determine the socket path and perms.
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| -rw-r--r-- | xul-ext/protocol | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/xul-ext/protocol b/xul-ext/protocol index b29e2fd..94f7744 100644 --- a/xul-ext/protocol +++ b/xul-ext/protocol @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ Upon startup, Firefox creates and listens on a new UNIX socket (shared between all tabs and windows) on which commands can be thrown in to fill -HTML forms. The greeting message indicates that the server is ready to +HTML forms. The socket path and permissions can respectively be +configured with the "extensions.icevault.socketPath" and +"extensions.icevault.socketPerms" preferences in "about:config". + +The greeting message indicates that the server is ready to accept commands. Each command and response are single UTF8 string lines ending with a newline character `\n'. (JSON-encoding ensures that control characters are escaped properly; decoding to a string rather |