Cross-Origin XMLHttpRequest in chrome extensions

According to chrome extensions API cross-origin calls using XMLHttpRequest object should be allowed if permissions are set:

An extension can talk to remote servers outside of its origin, as long as it first requests cross-origin permissions.

I am closely following the Google tutorial, but the code below is giving me an error message:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ajax. Origin chrome-extension://bmehmboknpnjgjbmiaoidkkjfcgiimbo is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

I not only allowed requests to google.com, but requests to any website still can’t get through. Can anybody help?

My manifest file:

{
  "name": "The popup",
  "version": "0.1",
  "popup": "popup.html",
  "permissions": [
    "http://*/*",
    "https://*/*",
    "https://www.google.com/*",
    "http://www.google.com/*"
    ],
  "browser_action": {
    "default_icon": "clock-19.png",
    "default_title": "This is title",
    "default_popup": "popup.html"
  }
}

JavaScript
​x
 
{
  "name": "The popup",
  "version": "0.1",
  "popup": "popup.html",
  "permissions": [
    "http://*/*",
    "https://*/*",
    "https://www.google.com/*",
    "http://www.google.com/*"
    ],
  "browser_action": {
    "default_icon": "clock-19.png",
    "default_title": "This is title",
    "default_popup": "popup.html"
  }
}
​

the actual call:

function sendRequest() {
    document.write("Sending request");
    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
      req.open("GET", "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ajax", true);
      req.onreadystatechange = function() {
          if (req.readyState == 4) {
            if (req.status == 200) {
              alert(req.responseText);
              document.write("OK");
            }
          }
        };
      req.send();
}

JavaScript
 
function sendRequest() {
    document.write("Sending request");
    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
      req.open("GET", "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ajax", true);
      req.onreadystatechange = function() {
          if (req.readyState == 4) {
            if (req.status == 200) {
              alert(req.responseText);
              document.write("OK");
            }
          }
        };
      req.send();
} 
​

Answer

Two things; you need to make sure you are making a packaged app/extension and not a hosted one. Cross origin requests will not work with hosted apps. Assuming you got that part pinned down, you may want to try to put the following into your permissions: http://*/ . That’s the only one I have for one of my packaged apps, and it does cross origin stuff without any problems.

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