ryan.mclelland@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm working on a school project trying to write an extension for
> firefox and am having a hard time getting acquainted with how
> everything works. I'm trying to write an XPCOM component in C++
> working with the mozilla build system. All I'm trying to do right now
> is send an Http OPTIONS request to a specific URL, and look at the
> headers (specifically the Server header) that comes back in the
> response. Can someone please help me out with the basics on how to do
> this? I've been trying to use nsIChannel, nsIHttpChannel, and other
> things, but cant seem to get it to work. Any help would be very much
> appreciated.

Is there any particular requirement that you use C++? I believe you can do
this very easily from JavaScript in an extension using XMLHttpRequest... if
not, using XPCOM from JS is still a lot simpler than from C++

--BDS