How send data to Firefox extension from external application

Question

We have developed extension addon-sdk with js-ctypes.

Is there anything in firefox what can get some data from external application.
May be need use this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Low-Level_APIs/test_httpd ?

Answer 1

There are a bunch of possibilities... E.g.

• Sockets via nsISocketTransport and/or nsIServerSocket.
• HTTP via regular XHR and/or nsIHttpServer (you kinda already found that one).
• Lower-level OS APIs via js-ctypes.