added user-agent logic

bluepill/background.js

@@ -1,25 +1,72 @@
 'use strict';
 
 var browser = browser || chrome
+var ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)";
+var targetPage = "*://*/*";
+var extension_status = 0;
 
 browser.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function() {
-  browser.storage.sync.set({number: 0}, function() {
-    console.log('The number is set to 0.');
+  browser.storage.sync.set({extension_status: 0}, function() {
+    console.log('The extension_status is set to 0.');
   });
 });
 
 function updateIcon() {
-  browser.storage.sync.get('number', function(data) {
-    var current = data.number;
-    browser.browserAction.setIcon({path: 'icon' + current + '.png'});
-    current++;
-    if (current > 1)
-      current = 0;
-    browser.storage.sync.set({number: current}, function() {
-      console.log('The number is set to ' + current);
+  browser.storage.sync.get('extension_status', function(data) {
+    extension_status = data.extension_status;
+
+    browser.browserAction.setIcon({path: 'icon' + extension_status + '.png'});
+    extension_status++;
+    if (extension_status > 1){
+        extension_status = 0;
+    }
+    browser.storage.sync.set({extension_status: extension_status}, function() {
+      console.log('The extension_status is set to ' + extension_status);
     });
   });
 };
 
+
+
+
 browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(updateIcon);
 //updateIcon();
+//
+//var ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)";
+var targetPage = "*://*/*";
+
+/*
+Rewrite the User-Agent header to "ua".
+*/
+function rewriteUserAgentHeader(e) {
+
+  browser.storage.sync.get('extension_status', function(data) {
+    extension_status = data.extension_status;
+    console.log('Browser http request:  ' + extension_status);
+
+  });
+    console.log(extension_status);
+   if(extension_status == 0){
+    return {requestHeaders: e.requestHeaders};
+   }
+
+
+    for (var header of e.requestHeaders) {
+        if (header.name.toLowerCase() === "user-agent") {
+            header.value = ua;
+        }
+      }
+    return {requestHeaders: e.requestHeaders};
+
+}
+
+/*
+Add rewriteUserAgentHeader as a listener to onBeforeSendHeaders,
+only for the target page.
+
+Make it "blocking" so we can modify the headers.
+*/
+browser.webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders.addListener(rewriteUserAgentHeader,
+                                          {urls: [targetPage]},
+                                          ["blocking", "requestHeaders"]);
+

bluepill/manifest.json

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
      "scripts": ["background.js"],
      "persistent": false
    },
-  "permissions": ["storage"],
-  "browser_action": {
+  "permissions": ["storage", "webRequest", "webRequestBlocking", "*://*/*"],
+      "browser_action": {
       "name": "Click to change your browsers perspective",
       "default_icon": "icon0.png"
   },