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I made a browser extension:

  1. reloads the page.
  2. open another tab from the same host and close it automatically.
  3. switch tabs to be active automatically (every 2 minutes one of these sites becomes active).

those work, but they had bad user experience. Reloading the page might lose work.

I tried making requests on the background but these websites use many confusing headers and cookies.

Is there a better way to stop logging off due to inactivity or a proper way to figure out which headers and cookies should I attach?

I don't know which stack these websites use, but they have high security standards.

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  • "is there a better way to stop logging off due to inactivity or a proper way to figure out which headers and cookies should I attach with my request??" You can attach all headers and cookies your browser attaches. Commented Nov 26, 2020 at 9:15
  • do you know a way I can attach all headers and cookies Commented Nov 26, 2020 at 9:38
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    In Firefox or Chrome I'd press Ctrl+Q, go to Network and choose one request. There I'd copy all headers. Next I'd go to Storage and copy all cookies. Commented Nov 26, 2020 at 9:51

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Once "Are you still there?" messages pops up, I right click, inspect, copy the selector, then do this in the console:

# paste your selector in this variable selector = "#j_idt473 > div.modal-footer > a.btn.btn-primary.btn-sm" document.querySelector(selector).click()

If that works, I then put it in a intervalID = window.setInterval(callback, milliseconds) call. I stop the loop with window.clearInterval(intervalID) if needed.

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