firefox addon webrequest.addListener misbehaving - firefox-addon

Question

I want to examine http requests in an extension for firefox. To begin figuring out how to do what I want to do I figured I'd just log everything and see what comes up:
webRequest.onResponseStarted.addListener(
(stuff) => {console.log(stuff);},
{urls: [/^.*$/]}
);
The domain is insignificant, and I know the regex works, verified in the console. When running this code I get no logging. When I take out the filter parameter I get every request:
webRequest.onResponseStarted.addListener(
(stuff) => {console.log(stuff);}
);
Cool, I'm probably doing something wrong, but I can't see what.
Another approach is to manually filter on my own:
var webRequest = Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/WebRequest.jsm", {});
var makeRequest = function(type) {
webRequest[type].addListener(
(stuff) => {
console.log(!stuff.url.match(/google.com.*/));
if(!stuff.url.match(/google.com.*/))
return;
console.log(type);
console.log(stuff);
}
);
}
makeRequest("onBeforeRequest");
makeRequest("onBeforeSentHeaders");
makeRequest("onSendHeaders");
makeRequest("onHeadersReceived");
makeRequest("onResponseStarted");
makeRequest("onCompleted");
With the console.log above the if, I can see the regex returning true when I want it to and the code making it past the if. When I remove the console.log above the if the if no longer gets executed.
My question is then, how do I get the filtering parameter to work or if that is indeed broken, how can I get the code past the if to be executed? Obviously, this is a fire hose, and to begin searching for a solution I will need to reduce the data.
Thanks

Answer 1

urls must be a string or an array of match patterns. Regular expressions are not supported.
WebRequest.jsm uses resource://gre/modules/MatchPattern.jsm. Someone might get confused with the util/match-pattern add-on sdk api, which does support regular expressions.