sending a post request from firefox addon

Question

I am currently working on an addon and it had a addon window with addon buttons and a tab in main window it maintains. I am able to open a page in main tab by

mainWindow().location = "http://murmuring-retreat-7618.herokuapp.com/signin";

I created mainWindow by following way

getBrowser().getBrowserForTab(bridge.recordingTab).contentWindow;

where I have already saved bridge.recordingTab as the tab I am connected.

but if I want to send a post request instead of just open a url, how do I do it?

Answer 1

If you use jQuery in your firefox addon then you could simply do a $.post

Note though that you need the destination server to be CORS enabled , otherwise you can only do JSONP requests using $.getJSON