is there a solution to corss domain Ajax

[cgishack]

Is there any solution to accessing data from another domain using Ajax/JS ?
I thought of the hidden frame trick, but it would require a lot more coding for me :( . less code = happy!

Any suggestions welcome,

Drew

[Overstatement]

Wasn't someone talking about taking the data from your PHP script which takes the data from someone else's site?

[cgishack]

I never saw the post.

[Overstatement]

I don't understand Ajax so I didn't understand those guys but it makes sense in theory, doesn't it?

[felgall]

There is no problem with cross domain access server side. Get the Javascript on your site to call server side processing on your site. That server side processing then contacts the other site and retrieves the required information which it then passed back to the browser.

[cgishack]

Would that not slow down the whole processing time ?
Double it up ?

[Overstatement]

Found it! (http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133781). ricp saved the data in his(her?) PHP script and only asked the other server if the current data was out of date.

[ricp]

Him :) .. Just because I have Miffy as an avatar doesn't make me less of a man you know! :p

Anyway.. there isn't a way to do it client side alone. In fact the only method of having cross domain scripting of any sort is by using an externally referencing script include tag..


<script type="text/javascript" src="http://not-on-my-domain.com/some-server-side-page.aspx"></script>


I've used aspx as an example but it just needs to point to some generated js from a remote server. Because the script tag is in the scope of the page it's in you can access it's content.

Of course the "served" content has to be valid JavaScript, which is why it is favoured by a lot of people who like JSON (http://www.json.org/js.html).