/desktop_extensions/content/mobibar_working.js

function MobiBarSearch(event){

	var query = document.getElementById("MobiBarQuery").value;



	var server = 'localhost';

	var port = 12345;

	var data = query;

	this.transportService = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/socket-transport-service;1"].

                                        getService(Components.interfaces.nsISocketTransportService);

    	this.scriptablestream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"].

                                            createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableInputStream);

    	this.pump = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/input-stream-pump;1"].

                                                createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIInputStreamPump);

	this.transport = this.transportService.createTransport(null, 0, server, port, null);

	this.outstream = this.transport.openOutputStream(1, 0, 0);

	this.outputData = query;

  	//this is where the connection is actually opens.

     	this.outstream.write(this.outputData, this.outputData.length);

       	this.outstream.flush();

	this.stream = this.transport.openInputStream(0, 0, 0);

	this.scriptablestream.init(this.stream);

	var dataListener = {

            	data: "testdata",

            	onStartRequest: function (request, context) {

    			//here is the event for connection established

                	alert("Started");

		},

            	onStopRequest: function (request, context, status) {

    		// here is the event if connection lost

            		alert("Stop");

		},

            	onDataAvailable: function (request, context, inputStream, offset, count) {

    		// here is where you recieve input from server

                	var response = scriptStream.read(count);

            		alert("Data available");

            	},

	};

  	outstream.write(data, data.length);

   	outstream.flush();

	this.pump.init(this.stream, -1, -1, 0, 0, false);

        this.pump.asyncRead(dataListener, null);

	

	//to write to stream

  	outstream.write(data, data.length);

   	outstream.flush();

	window._content.document.location  = encodeURI(query);



}





	//var serverSocket;	

	//serverSocket = io.connect('127.0.0.1:12345');

	//serverSocket.emit('clientMessage', 'Yo server');

	//function getLocalPlaya(whichOne){

    	//var filePa = emfile.path+'\\chrome\\content\\players\\'+whichOne;

    	//var gunsNRoses = filePa.replace('\\', '\\\\');

    	//var bFile = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);

    	//bFile.initWithPath(gunsNRoses);

    	//var istream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/file-input-stream;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileInputStream);

    	//istream.init(bFile, -1, -1, false);

    	//var bstream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/binaryinputstream;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIBinaryInputStream);

    	//bstream.setInputStream(istream);

    	//var bytes = bstream.readBytes(bstream.available());

    	/*	

	var serverSocket;

  	var listener =

  	{

    		onSocketAccepted : function(socket, transport)

    		{

      		try {

        		/*var outputString = 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n' +

        	            'Content-Length: '+bytes.length+'\r\n'+

        	            'Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash\r\n' +

        	            'content-disposition: attachment; filename="'+whichOne+'"\r\n'+

        	            'Accept-Ranges: bytes\r\n'+

        	            bytes;        

			var outputString = query;

        		var stream = transport.openOutputStream(0,0,0);

        		stream.write(outputString,outputString.length);

        		stream.close();

      			} catch(ex2){ LOG("::"+ex2); }

    		},

    		onStopListening : function(socket, status){}

  	};

  	try {

    		serverSocket = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/server-socket;1"]

                     .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIServerSocket);

    		serverSocket.init(12345,true,-1); 

    		serverSocket.asyncListen(listener);

  	} catch(ex){  }

	*/