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Adam K Dean
Adam K Dean

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Intercepting XMLHttpRequest requests

Let's kick off the continuation of my code blogging with a very helpful little snippet. I'm just removing this from a codebase so it can sit here for eternity instead.

(function(open) {
    XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open = function(method, url, async, user, pass) {
        // do some magic
        open.call(this, method, url, async, user, pass);
    };
})(XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open);
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This will intercept the request before it happens, and once you've done whatever changes you need to do, be it logging or tagging, you can continue it.

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