Post data to JsonP

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ChrisCa picture ChrisCa · Apr 23, 2010 · Viewed 94.2k times · Source

Is it possible to post data to JsonP? Or does all data have to be passed in the querystring as a GET request?

I have alot of data that I need to send to the service, cross domain, and it is too large to send via the querystring

What are the options for getting around this?

Answer

friedo picture friedo · Apr 23, 2010

It is not possible to do an asynchronous POST to a service on another domain, due to the (quite sensible) limitation of the same origin policy. JSON-P only works because you're allowed to insert <script> tags into the DOM, and they can point anywhere.

You can, of course, make a page on another domain the action of a regular form POST.

Edit: There are some interesting hacks out there if you're willing to go to a lot of effort inserting hidden <iframe>s and mucking about with their properties.

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