Bug#698426: iceweasel: Please suggest applications handling mime type

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Mike Hommey]
> I mean an http server. Their plugin finder in firefox sends requests
> to an http server.

Ah, right.  did not know this.

I had a look at the source to try to figure out how hard it would be
to change this.  The source is in toolkit/mozapps/plugins/content/,
and it a xul plugin written in javascript.

  pere at host:~/src/iceweasel-10.0.12esr$ ls ./toolkit/mozapps/plugins/content/
  pluginFinderBinding.css       pluginInstallerWizard.xul
  pluginInstallerDatasource.js  pluginProblemBinding.css
  pluginInstallerService.js     pluginProblemContent.css
  pluginInstallerWizard.css     pluginProblem.xml
  pluginInstallerWizard.js
  pere at host:~/src/iceweasel-10.0.12esr$

I guess this is the reason why it is talking to a http server, perhaps
it is hard to talk to local services from a XUL plugin?  I do not know
much about XUL plugins nor able to code in JavaScript, so I am not
sure how to help here.

Perhaps the Ubuntu implementation is the most sensible way to do it?

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen