/tags/crossdomain/ Recent bookmarks tagged #crossdomain Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:55 +0000 http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/05/25/cross-domain-ajax-with-cross-origin-resource-sharing "A couple of years ago, web developers were banging their head against the first wall in Ajax: the same-origin policy. While we marveled at the giant step forward enabled by cross-browser support for the XMLHttpRequest object, we quickly bemoaned the fact that there was no way to make a request to a different domain from JavaScript. Everyone setup proxies on their web sites, which was the onset of a new host of open redirect problems, as a way to get around the restriction. Although developers were working around this limitation using server-side proxies as well as other techniques, the community outcry was around allowing native cross-domain Ajax requests. A lot of people are unaware that almost all browsers (Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, and Chrome) presently support cross-domain Ajax via a protocol called Cross-Origin Resource Sharing."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #ajax #cors #crossdomain #security #webdev</p> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:29:20 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:13743 ajax cors crossdomain security webdev