Intercept and track `MessagePort` traffic

[BurningEnlightenment]

The current electron documentation suggests implementing communication between the main world and context isolated renderer worlds via MessageChannels / MessagePorts¹.

However, this extension isn't really helpful if we apply the above advice as all relevant IPC traffic does not flow through the ipcMain / ipcRenderer interfaces.

Therefore I suggest additionally tracking all MessagePort instances which have been transferred through the relevant ipc interfaces. This would require either intercepting the postMessage calls or the message events.

Footnotes

1. https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/message-ports#communicating-directly-between-the-main-process-and-the-main-world-of-a-context-isolated-page ↩

[hitarth-gg]

Thanks for pointing this out. It might take me a while to get back to this since I have my exams rn. I’ll get back to it ASAP and see what I can do.

[BurningEnlightenment]

no worries, good luck and thank you for bringing this extension back to life 🙏

[wineerteam]

I’d like to work on this issue for my GSoC contribution.
If it’s free, can I start working on it?