Run results method in background about flashlight

[nate-parrott]

Hmm... I think the preferred way of dealing with this is to return HTML and then do your network requests in javascript. This has the added benefit of automatically cleaning up the previous query's requests when the query changes. See the weather plugin for an example of this.

[allenhsu]

@nate-parrott Yea, that's a good way, but during development, I found many of the APIs disallow cross domain xhr, which returns No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access. while trying to fetch in JS. Any solution to this problem except setting up a proxy server?

[nate-parrott]

Hmm... looks like there's an undocumented switch you can flip on the Webview. We're already using loads of undocumented APIs at it is, so this might be doable — although it might introduce security issues.

[nate-parrott]

Running a local proxy server is another alternative, but that'd be a bit of work...

[nate-parrott]

Actually, I might be mistaken here. Do cross-origin restrictions apply to content loaded by the local app into a webview, or is this just a problem for you during development? (in the browser)

[allenhsu]

Thanks @nate-parrott , I succeeded running network requests in JS. As you said, there's no cross domain problem in Flashlight, it just failed when I debug in browser. You can close this issue.

BTW, I created a repo listing Chinese plugins for Flashlight (https://github.com/allenhsu/FlashlightPlugins). Do you have any plan to implement kinda subscription channel so that Chinese users can subscribe to a Chinese plugin list.

[nate-parrott]

I'm sure there's some setting in some browser that'll let you turn off
cross-domain protection during debugging.

Re: Chinese plugins:
That's awesome. At the very least, we could add some way to subscribe to
third-party repositories, but there's gotta be a better way. Maybe I'll add
some sort of channel system and then automatically enable the Chinese
channel for users w/ Chinese as their system language.
(Isn't github blocked in mainland China? Would it make sense to host this
stuff on gitcafe or something?)
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:13 AM Allen Hsu [email protected] wrote:

Thanks @nate-parrott https://github.com/nate-parrott , I succeeded
running network requests in JS. As you said, there's no cross domain
problem in Flashlight, it just failed when I debug in browser. You can
close this issue.

BTW, I created a repo listing Chinese plugins for Flashlight (
https://github.com/allenhsu/FlashlightPlugins). Do you have any plan to
implement kinda subscription channel so that Chinese users can subscribe to
a Chinese plugin list.

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[allenhsu]

@nate-parrott aha, github was blocked only for a few days long time ago. It works fine now.