jquery ajax cross,jQuery Ajax Cross-site scripting

Thanks for the responses. Very helpful. I decided to go with a proxy approach for which I found a simple solution here: http://www.paulund.co.uk/make-cross-domain-ajax-calls-with-jquery-and-php

For cut and paste simplicity I've added my code here.

I created a file called crossdomain.html. Included jquery library. Created the following Javascript function:

function requestDataByProxy()

{

var url = "http://UrlYouWantToAcccess.html";

var data = "url=" + url + "&parameters=1&para=2";

$.ajax({

url: "our_domain_url.php",

data: data,

type: "POST",

success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR){

console.log('Success ' + data);

$('#jsonData').html(data);

},

error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){

console.log('Error ' + jqXHR);

}

});

}

I also added a simple button and pre tag in HTML to load results:

Request Data By Proxy

Requsted Data

And then, the PHP file our_domain_url.php which uses cURL (make sure you have this enabled!)

//set POST variables

$url = $_POST['url'];

unset($_POST['url']);

$fields_string = "";

//url-ify the data for the POST

foreach($_POST as $key=>$value) {

$fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&';

}

$fields_string = rtrim($fields_string,'&');

//open connection

$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($_POST));

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);

//execute post

$result = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection

curl_close($ch);

?>

To me, this was a fairly straight-forward solution.

Hope this helps someone else!

Rob