// 'timer' is global to avoid getting GCed which would cancel the timer var timer; const nsITimer = Components.interfaces.nsITimer; function attemptUnblock(s) { try { let blockedResponse = null; getObjectState("bug503481_" + s, function(x) {blockedResponse = x.wrappedJSObject.r}); blockedResponse.finish(); setObjectState("bug503481_" + s, null); } catch(e) { dump("unable to unblock " + s + "retrying in half a second\n"); timer = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/timer;1"] .createInstance(nsITimer); timer.initWithCallback(function () { attemptUnblock(s) }, 500, nsITimer.TYPE_ONE_SHOT); } } function handleRequest(request, response) { var query = {}; request.queryString.split('&').forEach(function (val) { var [name, value] = val.split('='); query[name] = unescape(value); }); dump("processing:" + request.queryString + "\n"); if (query.unblock) { attemptUnblock(query.unblock); } if (query.blockOn) { response.processAsync(); x = { r: response, QueryInterface: function(iid) { return this } }; x.wrappedJSObject = x; setObjectState("bug503481_" + query.blockOn, x); } response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache", false); response.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain", false); response.write(query.body); }