When I try to submit data from addon to an external website using jquery post from content_scripts I get this error: Content Security Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource at https://www.test.com/ (“connect-src”). I understand that this type of error can be fixed using ba…

Assuming that jQuery uses XHRs, you should be able to POST from a content script, if you have a host permission for the target: [image] permissions - Mozilla | MDN Use the permissions key to request special powers for your extension. This key is an array of strings, and each string is a …

Addon is running on facebook website. Using XMLHttpRequest I don’t have that error, instead in both cases action is not made on target website, in console I have a call request to https://www.facebook.com/ajax/bz

Submit data via jquery post to another website

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NilkasG (Niklas Gollenstede) April 18, 2018, 5:59pm 2

Assuming that jQuery uses XHRs, you should be able to POST from a content script, if you have a host permission for the target:

At least one would hope that the pages CSP doesn’t interfere with this.

Content scripts and websocket

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Submit data via jquery post to another website

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