[Gnash-dev] Re: Getting window.location from plugins

[strk]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 05:56:07AM -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 10:48 +0200, strk wrote:
> > Hi, I'm looking for informations about getting
> > current window's url from a mozilla plugin.
> > 
> > The problem is that the plugin receive information
> > about a stream's url, but what I need is really
> > the url of the HTML page containing the EMBED or OBJECT
> > tag, not of the stream.
> 
> I don't know that that's possible without resorting to XPCOM. And you
> probably don't want that since it will negatively impact the portability
> of your binaries.
> 
> > This will be needed for the GNU Flash Player plugin,
> > see a testpage here:
> > http://foo.keybit.net/~strk/flash/tests/relative_urls_test/frameset.html
> > 
> > In the test, the SWF file is located under a subdir (swf/buttons.swf)
> > but the plugin needs to know the URL of the frame containing the
> > page loading that (topframe/topframe.html).
> 
> Why? If you fetch with NPN_GetURL, it should resolve the relative URI
> properly.

Yes, this is the alternative I was thinking about.
Currently this is not possible as the plugin simply starts 
a separate process trought a system() call, so in order 
to invoke NPN_GetURL we'll need a way to communicate to it.
Well, thanks for your answer, I'll concentrate on setting
this communication channel on, or get rid of the system() call
and keep a better link to the workhorse.

--strk;