Fetch local ip adress

Add-ons Development
#1

Hello this is my first add-ons development and I have a few questions.

I have a 4g box, when i fetch my box via a specific route (http://192.168.1.1/api/monitoring/month_statistics) i get the total amount of data i have downloaded for the current month.

I want to create an extension to avoid to go to the monitoring page for checking this data.

1 - is this possible to fetch a local ip address via an add-on ?
2 - what is the solution to do that ? I found that but the code seems a bit deprecated (I have the following error on my console The object "Components" is obsolete. It will be deleted soon.).

#2

Are you looking for the local IP of the device the extension is running on? Or do you just want to make a request to that local IP in your example? If so, you can just use that url with fetch.

#3

Hello sorry for the late reply i have lot of work this month.

I want to fetch a script in the router 192.168.1.1/api/something for example.

But the problem is when i fetch via postman for example is ok; but when i do the same via the extension i have a CORS policy error.

I think this is because the router only authorize fetch when he come from the local network.

So the question is : it is possible to fetch this kind of “api” via a web extension ? If yes how ?

#4

What you want to do is add a host permission for the IP of the router, so you can ignore CORS. If the IP is not hardcoded in the extension, you could just declare an optional permission of <all_urls>and then request the permission for the IP once you know it.