webRequest.onErrorOccurred

Fired when a request could not be processed due to an error: for example, a lack of Internet connectivity.

The error is passed to the listener as the error property of the details object.

Note that this event is not fired for HTTP errors (4XX or 5XX responses): these will go through the normal stages of a request, calling any event listeners, and setting details.statusCode to report the error.

This event is informational only.

Syntax

browser.webRequest.onErrorOccurred.addListener(
  listener,             // function
  filter                //  object
)
browser.webRequest.onErrorOccurred.removeListener(listener)
browser.webRequest.onErrorOccurred.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(callback, filter)

Adds a listener to this event.

removeListener(listener)

Stop listening to this event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.

hasListener(listener)

Check whether listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

callback

A function that will be called when this event occurs. The function will be passed the following arguments:

details

object. Details about the request. See details below.

filter

webRequest.RequestFilter. A filter that restricts the events that will be sent to this listener.

Additional objects

details

documentUrl

string. URL of the document in which the resource will be loaded. For example, if the web page at "https://example.com" contains an image or an iframe, then the documentUrl for the image or iframe will be "https://example.com". For a top-level document, documentUrl is undefined.

error

string. The error description. This string is an internal error string, may vary from one browser to another, and is not guaranteed to stay the same between releases.

frameId

integer. Zero if the request happens in the main frame; a positive value is the ID of a subframe in which the request happens. If the document of a (sub-)frame is loaded (type is main_frame or sub_frame), frameId indicates the ID of this frame, not the ID of the outer frame. Frame IDs are unique within a tab.

fromCache

boolean. Indicates if this response was fetched from disk cache.

ipFacultatif

string. The server IP address that the request was actually sent to. Note that it may be a literal IPv6 address.

method

string. Standard HTTP method: for example, "GET" or "POST".

originUrl

string. URL of the resource which triggered the request. For example, if "https://example.com" contains a link, and the user clicks the link, then the originUrl for the resulting request is "https://example.com".

The originUrl is often but not always the same as the documentUrl. For example, if a page contains an iframe, and the iframe contains a link that loads a new document into the iframe, then the documentUrl for the resulting request will be the iframe's parent document, but the originUrl will be the URL of the document in the iframe that contained the link.

parentFrameId

integer. ID of the frame that contains the frame which sent the request. Set to -1 if no parent frame exists.

proxyInfo

object. This property is present only if the request is being proxied. It contains the following properties:

host

string. The hostname of the proxy server.

port

integer. The port number of the proxy server.

type

string. The type of proxy server. One of:

• "http": HTTP proxy (or SSL CONNECT for HTTPS)
• "https": HTTP proxying over TLS connection to proxy
• "socks": SOCKS v5 proxy
• "socks4": SOCKS v4 proxy
• "direct": no proxy
• "unknown": unknown proxy

username

string. Username for the proxy service.

proxyDNS

boolean. True if the proxy will perform domain name resolution based on the hostname supplied, meaning that the client should not do its own DNS lookup.

failoverTimeout

integer. Failover timeout in seconds. If the proxy connection fails, the proxy will not be used again for this period.

requestId

string. The ID of the request. Request IDs are unique within a browser session, so you can use them to relate different events associated with the same request.

tabId

integer. The ID of the tab in which the request takes place. Set to -1 if the request isn't related to a tab.

timeStamp

number. The time when this event fired, in milliseconds since the epoch.

type

webRequest.ResourceType. The type of resource being requested: for example, "image", "script", "stylesheet".

url

string. Target of the request.

Browser compatibility

The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

Examples

var target = "<all_urls>";

/*
e.g., with no network:
"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/"
NS_ERROR_NET_ON_RESOLVED in Firefox
net::ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED in Chrome
*/
function logError(responseDetails) {
  console.log(responseDetails.url);
  console.log(responseDetails.error);
}

browser.webRequest.onErrorOccurred.addListener(
  logError,
  {urls: [target]}
);

Example extensions

• stored-credentials

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