chrome extension command-line communication

Question

Is there anyway for me to communicate with my chrome extension from a command-line \ some other process ? I need my extension if it could get commands from scripts\command-line that would invoke functions on my extension. I'm looking for something like sockets but since extensions are built in javascript this doesn't seem possible (and the whole socket-like message passing in chrome only allows you to communicate between your own pages or other extensions , not other processes).

Answer 1

HTML5 exposes a JavaScript socket interface called web sockets which will allow you to communicate from any process with your extension. Chrome supports web sockets.