Copper (Cu) CoAP user-agent

A Firefox add-on to browse the Internet of Things

How to integrate the Copper sources into Firefox:

1. Get the sources from Github: clone git://github.com/mkovatsc/Copper.git
2. It might be a good idea to create a new profile such as "dev." To do so add the switch -P when starting Firefox to get the profile editor.
3. Add an empty file .autoreg to your Firefox directory that contains the executable (e.g., C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox).
4. Add a text file named copper@vs.inf.ethz.ch to your profile's extension directory (e.g., C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\pqz54r9q.dev\extensions\ or ~/.mozilla/firefox/8qbqpzqs.default/extensions/).
5. Write the path to the Copper sources (i.e., the directory that contains install.rdf and chrome.manifest) with (back)slash at the end to the file (e.g., D:\Projects\Git\Copper\).
6. (Re-)start Firefox with the switch -console to get additional debug output.
7. Optionally use about:config with the filter "copper" to clean up old configurations.

Copper should show up in the add-ons list. You can now enter CoAP URIs (e.g., coap://vs0.inf.ethz.ch/) into the address bar and will have a user interface to interact with the CoAP resources on a server.

See also:

Setting up Extension Development Environment