Controlling what is sent to my browser

[Heinz Schmitz]

Please forgive me if this question is outside the province of this
newsgroup, but as scripts are/may be involved, you might be able
to send me along a good road.

If I tell my browser to load a page, the sender of this page will
force me to accept content and appearance (data and make-up).
Very often, however, I would like to get only part of the data, or a
different make-up.

What I have seen until now (XUL, XPCOM, Chrome) will allow
me to work on the data after it has come in and been displayed
by the browser.
But the most efficient way would be to get control over the stream
as it comes in. Where would I go to get there? Is there a way to
do it by reaching into Firefoxes gearbox or would I have to write
a new browser?

Thanks & regards,
H.

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Heinz Schmitz wrote:

But the most efficient way would be to get control over the stream
as it comes in. Where would I go to get there?

An HTTP proxy server that is either transparent, running on another
computer in your local network, or a non-transparent one that is used
by your Web user agent (here: Firefox).

Is there a way to do it by reaching into Firefoxes gearbox or would
I have to write a new browser?

No. Obviously you can't hide what you don't know.
HTH

PointedEars
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evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
madness: XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
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