I'm trying to develop an extension to modify certain script loads on the fly in Firefox (eg. building a JSON params file having a fixed file name, intercepting it's original load and injecting the custom file in). Is there any way to utilize the functionality of Tamper data or similar plugins for the intercept and replace part? Or could someone please point to a resource which could help me do the intercepting by myself?
Please pardon me if this was obvious, I'm starting out with plugin development for Firefox.
I solved this myself, went with a separate ASP.net project to perform these functions and redirected to generated files using Fiddlercore packages
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I am developing a WebExtension for Firefox. In order to post my extension, it must not have any remote scripts in it.
In order to display some tweets in my extension's menu, I have used the Twitter-Post-Fetcher library, but I can't post my extension with it because the library uses remote scripts from twitter.com.
I prefer not to use the Twitter API if possible, because the requests would come from the extension's users.
No remote scripts means that if you are going execute code in the context of your extension, then the code must be included in the extension package, not hosted on some server. While there may be other ways to accomplish this (e.g. running the code in the page context, which may be acceptable, but may not), the default way to accomplish this is to: download the code that you are executing and use a copy that you include in the extension package.
This is the case for all code, including libraries such as jQuery. It is highly recommended that the code be an exact byte-by-byte copy of code that can be downloaded from a public repository, and that you indicate within your extension package the exact URL you used to obtain the code.
The reason for this is security. If downloading code at runtime was permitted, then that code could be trivially changed at any time. It would mean that having the add-on reviewed by Mozilla would be of no benefit.
Please see the Review Policies page on MDN, and all the pages linked from there, for more details.
I am writing a Program in Rub On Rails 4.x and I have to take PDF files with defined fields that can be filled out, fill in data from a form submission(This part is DONE!), and lastly allow the user to modify the saved PDF file on the server and overwrite said PDF after making their modifications.
Like I said I have already gotten the PDF files filled out with what has been submitted in the form through pdftk . What I now need to do is provide a server side editing capability to the said PDF files on server generated from the first step of the process.
I have seen similar posts but none wanting to do the same thing I do. If I am wrong links would be great. Thanks in advance for all your help!
After lots of digging and research here is what I have found to be the facts surrounding this issue and implementing a program to allow embedding the PDF file, editing it, and saving it back to the server. This process would be great however from what I can tell there is nothing out there that really does this for Ruby On Rails. To quote #Nick Veys
Seems like you need to find a Javascript PDF editor you can load your PDF into, allow the user to modify it, and ultimately submit it back to the server. Seems like they exist, here's one for ASP projects
You are correct but still wrong in the sense that yes there is one for ASP projects however that is Microsoft Based, yes I know that it can run on Linux environments through Mono. However to the point it would appear in this instance that a Ruby On Rails specific solution is indeed needed.
The solution that we have come up with is as follows
1. Use a PDF editing package in the linux repositories like PDFtk
2. You then render a page with the PDF embeded on one side and a form representing the live fields in the PDF to take input.
3. Once submitted you use PDFtk to write the values into a new template PDF file and overwrite what was previously stored.
This requires a few additional steps to process the data than I really care for myself. However it is the best solution that our team could come up with, without bleeding the project budget dry for just 1 piece of functionality.
I hope this helps anyone else looking to do the same thing in Ruby On Rails.
I have done something like this using my company's .NET product. It can also be done using its Java version too.
http://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=255&t=Save_Form_Submit_Data_Back_To_Original_PDF_Document_In_NET
Im trying to use the standard neo4j visualisation in a seperate Website (not the original Neo4j Webbrowser). Therefore I downloaded the library from here:
https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/tree/master/community/browser/lib/visualization
I really struggle with using it. I actually have no real idea. I tried including it into a html file but hardly failed.
Did anyone do this? Would be very nice, if someone could help me out.
Thanks a lot!
Greetings
Schakron
Those are all coffee files (coffeescript, which compiles into javascript). It looks like if you go up two levels there's a README which shows you how to start it up using npm and grunt:
https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/tree/master/community/browser
The app itself (maybe it's a node.js app, though I don't see references to node) is under the app directory from there. It has jade files which would be the HTML views (jade compiles to HTML similar to how coffescript compiles to javascript).
So presumably if you get that all set up there will be a server serving up HTML which will compile and serve up those coffeescript files as javascript in the page
I´m making a web application in MVC, I have a view where I select a file from my pc directory (like opendialog form in windows applications), bootstrap´s fileupload gets the file name but I want to know his physical path to. Because I want to save it in my data base (where file come from).
Anybody can help me??
Thank you in advance!
You can't, this information is never sent to the server for obvious security reasons. Only the filename is sent to the server. So you cannot store the physical path where the file originated from the client machine on your server.
When you upload a file via a web browser, the actual file path is not supplied. This is seen as being a security feature.
There is no way to circumvent this using pure HTML. Some people get around it by using a plugin such as Flash or Silverlight to upload the file, but I recommend living with this feature if you can.
We have an FTP site for clients, and they just go to it with a web browser and see the files. I'd like to display the files in a more visually pleasing manner, is there a way I can show what files are on the server in the view, perhaps iterate over them and style them?
I found this answer here, but really didn't answer my question:
Ruby-Rails serve ftp file direct to client
(using rails 3 if it makes a difference)
You can use library links below:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/net/ftp/rdoc/index.html
http://oreilly.com/catalog/ruby/chapter/ch04.html
and you can use EventMachine https://github.com/schleyfox/em-ftp-client.
Cheers!