I would like to intercept all http requests going out from my web page and add a parameter to the request body. My page includes forms - I also want to capture form submits. I have tried using Jquery ajaxSend and Javascript's setRequestHeader but both did not work for me. How do I achieve this?
Thanks
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API
Service workers essentially act as proxy servers that sit between web applications, and the browser and network (when available).
It takes the form of a JavaScript file that can control the web page/site it is associated with, intercepting and modifying navigation and resource requests
You register a service worker in your application code from a file named, e.g., sw.js
by doing this:
if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
window.addEventListener('load', function() {
navigator.serviceWorker.register('sw.js').then(function(registration) {
console.log('Service worker registered with scope: ', registration.scope);
}, function(err) {
console.log('ServiceWorker registration failed: ', err);
});
});
}
And in the sw.js
file (the actual service-worker code): To intercept requests, you attach a fetch
event listener to the service worker that calls the respondWith()
method and does something with the .request
member from the event object:
self.addEventListener('fetch', function(event) {
event.respondWith(
// intercept requests by handling event.request here
);
});
A simple service worker that just passes through requests unchanged looks like this:
self.addEventListener('fetch', function(event) {
event.respondWith(
fetch(event.request)
);
});
To add a param to the request body, I think you need to serialize the request, modify that serialized request, then deserialize it to recreate a new request, then call fetch(…)
with that new request.
So I think a service worker that does all that would look like this (untested):
self.addEventListener('fetch', function(event) {
event.respondWith(
fetchWithParamAddedToRequestBody(event.request)
);
});
function fetchWithParamAddedToRequestBody(request) {
serialize(request).then(function(serialized) {
// modify serialized.body here to add your request parameter
deserialize(serialized).then(function(request) {
return fetch(request);
});
}
function serialize(request) {
var headers = {};
for (var entry of request.headers.entries()) {
headers[entry[0]] = entry[1];
}
var serialized = {
url: request.url,
headers: headers,
method: request.method,
mode: request.mode,
credentials: request.credentials,
cache: request.cache,
redirect: request.redirect,
referrer: request.referrer
};
if (request.method !== 'GET' && request.method !== 'HEAD') {
return request.clone().text().then(function(body) {
serialized.body = body;
return Promise.resolve(serialized);
});
}
return Promise.resolve(serialized);
}
function deserialize(data) {
return Promise.resolve(new Request(data.url, data));
}
Note: https://serviceworke.rs/request-deferrer_service-worker_doc.html, a page from the Service Worker Cookbook, is where I lifted that serialize(…)
code/approach from—by way of the answer at How to alter the headers of a Request?—and it’s worth taking a look at, because the code there has detailed annotations explaining what it’s all doing
try this code :
(function(send) {
XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send = function(data) {
var _valuToAdd = $("input[name='valuToAdd']").val();
this.setRequestHeader('valueName', _valuToAdd);
send.call(this, data);
};
})(XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send);