October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
7h 34m
English
This appendix covers alternatives to CORS. Before CORS, the techniques described here could be used to make cross-origin requests. While CORS is the standard for modern web applications, these alternative techniques are useful for making cross-origin requests from older browsers.
Each technique follows a similar pattern, as illustrated in figure D.1. The client wants to make a request to a server that lives at a different origin. In between there is a proxy mechanism that processes the request from the client and sends it to the server.
figure D.1 will reappear in each section that follows to help highlight how each technique operates. ...
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