Getting the timing of a Gmail Chrome extension content script just right
Today, after having been in this business for more than five years, I realized that a small percentage of people who installed our GMass Chrome extension never got…
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Category: Developers
We’ve designed GMass to be easy to use — our goal is that any user of any level can install the GMass Chrome extension and feel confident sending personalized mass emails in minutes.
But as a developer, you know it takes a lot of sophistication behind-the-scenes to make everything out front work so smooth.
Here in the developers archives, you can dig into the most technical articles we’ve written on the GMass blog. Pick up high-level techniques around GMass, the GMass API, Gmail, server management and more.
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How to block IP Addresses in an AWS/Windows/IIS environment
Here’s the problem — you’re hosting a Windows server running IIS on AWS, and your web app is getting hammered with requests that look like this: https://www.mywebsite.com/?q=%23Hcker%3Cbody%20oninput%3Djavascript%3Aalert(1)%3EHcker These…
Advanced Techniques with the Google Picker API
If your app needs to let a user pick a file from his Google Drive, you might consider using the Google Picker API. I recently implemented the Picker…
Google OAuth’s Incremental Authorization is Useless
If you uninstall our Chrome extension, a form pops up asking you for a reason, and one of the most common reasons given is that the permissions GMass…
A better way to get an IIS site to redirect to www and https
If you’ve deployed sites to IIS, at some point, you probably Googled how to make your site redirect from the non-www to the www version and from the…
How to connect WPForms to a custom backend (example using .NET and SQL Server)
WPForms is a popular plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to add forms to posts and pages, but it doesn’t let you override the form’s “submit” action.…
Developer’s Guide to the Gmail API and From Addresses/Names
If you’ve used the Gmail API, you may have encountered some quirks with From Addressing when creating and sending a DRAFT. As an example, if you’re working with…
The Gmail API’s quirky handling of HTML and Plain Text messages parts
If you’re using the Gmail API to send email, specifically using messages.send, you will likely notice some unexpected behavior with respect to HTML and Plain Text message parts.…
How to send a cookie with a cross-origin XMLHttpRequest from a Chrome extension
When developing a Chrome extension, you might need to get an XMLHttpRequest that’s part of a content script to send cookies for a domain when making a request to…
How to handle Google’s disabling of inline installations of Chrome extensions
On June 12, 2018, Google disabled inline installation of Chrome extensions. This means that now you can’t directly install an extension from a company’s website–you can only do it…
How to get a Google user’s email address after the Google+ API shutdown
If you’re a developer using any part of Google’s API, you’ve likely received notices informing you that come March 7, 2019, the Google+ API will be shut down.…
How to redirect the user to a website after installing a Chrome extension
If you’re the developer of a Chrome extension, after a user installs your extension from the Chrome Web Store, you may want to redirect the user to a particular…