jQuery.ajax call fails inside Chrome extension

Question

I\'m porting one of my Firefox extensions to Chrome, and I\'m running into a little problem with an AJAX query. The following code works fine in the FF extension, but fails

Answer 1

Check your manifest file. Does the extension have permission to access that url?

If it helps to your second problem (or anyone else): You can send a request to your background page like:

chrome.extension.sendRequest({var1: "var1value", var2: "value", etc}, 
 function(response) {
    //Do something once the request is done.
}); 

The Variable response can be anything you want it to be. It can simply be a success or deny string. Up to you.

On your background page you can add a listener:

chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(
function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
      // Do something here
      // Once done you can send back all the info via:
      sendResponse( anything you want here );

      // and it'll be passed back to your content script.
});

With this you can pass the response from your AJAX request back to your content script and do whatever you wanted to do with it there.