Firefox Cross Domain Request

javascript firefox cross-domain same-origin-policy
Pablo Fernandez picture Pablo Fernandez · Mar 9, 2010 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

I need to make a cross domain request from a script that runs in firefox (it's just for development purposes).

Can this be achieved? maybe modifying the about:config keys?

Thanks!

Answer

Teja Kantamneni picture Teja Kantamneni · Mar 9, 2010

There is a great post by James Padolsey on how to to cross domain requests using jQuery, But the post also has very good resources. There need to be some tweaking to be done on the other server to allow cross domain calls using crossdomain.xml

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