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Programming Social Applications
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Programming Social Applications

by Jonathan LeBlanc
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
20h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Bypassing the Same-Origin Policy Requirements

When running into issues with the same-origin policy, developers implement some of the following methods to bypass these browser restrictions:

  • Using a server-side proxy script. For instance, your JavaScript file can make a request to some PHP or Python script that it has access to, which in turn can facilitate server-to-server communication to some cross-domain source.

  • Implement a Flash transport layer. In the same way that the server-side proxy works, some developers have used Flash to proxy requests to overcome the limits imposed by the same-origin policy.

  • Generating iframes to pass data from a source site through to another location where the iframe is loaded.

There are numerous other ways to bypass the issue of communication between sites due to the same-origin policy restrictions, but these are a few of the most commonly implemented.

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