[Cialug] OT: Socket programming + jquery conundrum

Matthew Steven matthew at geniusweb.com
Tue Apr 12 23:02:43 CDT 2011


Great answer, that's it exactly. Huge thanks!


On 04/12/2011 08:10 PM, Eric Junker wrote:
> What port is your HTTP server that you wrote listening on? AJAX 
> requests are subject to the Same origin policy 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy I believe if your HTML 
> is served by Apache on port 80 but your HTTP server that you make an 
> AJAX request to is on a different port it would be considered to be a 
> different origin and the browser would block it. You can get around 
> Same origin policy by using JSONP.
>
> Eric
>


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