Mink Allow select archives/interfaces to access Mink info using Chrome API

Using externally_connectable ( https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest/externally_connectable ), an archive's webUI (or any arbitrary web page, even one on localhost) could be added to the select set of archives aggregated on-the-fly or other webpages (e.g., The Heritrix/Wayback web interfaces in WAIL) could communicate with Mink directly. This might be useful to add buttons onto the archive's web interfaces using content page manipulation.

Feb 03 '16 21:02 machawk1

Branch issue-203 has been setup with hooks. A simple web page like the following will invoke a callee's functionality in Mink:

<html>
<body>
<script>
var minkId = "ehlefgjpcinhloogfldmkojonnjpnloo";
chrome.runtime.sendMessage(minkId, {"test": "case!"},
  function(response) {
    if (!response.success)
      handleError(url);
  });

</script>
</body>
</html>

Feb 05 '16 13:02 machawk1

@weiglemc @phonedude Per above, web pages and other extensions can communicate to Chrome extensions (i.e., Mink) through message passing. Can you imagine some specific use cases for this?

Feb 05 '16 13:02 machawk1