The same origin policy  I wanted to make a community wiki regarding HTML/JS same-origin policies to hopefully help anyone searching for this topic. This is one of the most searched-for topics on SO and there is no consolidated wiki for it so here I...

I would like to manipulate the HTML inside an iframe using jQuery.  I thought I'd be able to do this by setting the context of the jQuery function to be the document of the iframe, something like:  $(function(){ //document ready     $('some...

I am loading an <iframe> in my HTML page and trying to access the elements within it using Javascript, but when I try to execute my code, I get the following error:  SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "http://www.<domain>.co...

I am having a tough time figuring out how to access a page loaded in an iframe from the outer page.  Both pages are local files, and I'm using Chrome.  I have an outer page, and many inner pages.  The outer page should always display the page t...

I have an environment that doesn't allow server side scripting really (it is extremely difficult to get a script "installed" on the server). I tried using an iframe to violate javascript's same origin poilcy; however, that didn'...

I know if on my own webpage, if my user is on : http://www.example.com/form.php  and I make an ajax request from that page to :  http://example.com/responder.php  It will fail because of the Same origin policy (subdomain is different).   What I am tr...

How does the Same Origin Policy apply to the following two domains?  http://server1.MyDomain.com  http://server2.MyDomain.com  Can I run JS on a page hosted on server1, if the content is retreived from server2?  edit according to Daniel's answer...

I don't really get Access-Control-Allow-Origin and CORS.  If I allow request from any domain to my page, does that imply any security issues for my page?  I always thought, that SOP ensures, that there can't run any script on a page, which re...

I am trying to intercept links clicked on a page including those inside an iframe.  This is the code that I have but it is not working.  Any ideas what I need to do?  $("#container").delegate('a', 'click', function(e){  //do s...

I have a server on our company intranet that runs JBoss. I want to send API calls to this server from my machine, also on the intranet, and get the resulting XML responses using JQuery.   I read the entry on Wikipedia but am confused how that applies...