AJAX, jQuery & how to bypass the same-origin policy
Today’s post is intended to give a brief introduction to the topic of AJAX with jQuery, as well as to cover the topic of cross domain (policy) and to show how you can use small tricks to send AJAX requests across multiple domains. Before we start, however, we will give you a quick introduction to the topic. If you are already familiar with the topic and are only interested in the AJAX cross-domain workaround, you can safely skip the first part of the article.
What is AJAX and how does it work in jQuery?
AJAX is an abbreviation and stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript And XML”. Contrary to the opinion of some people on the Internet, it is not a programming language, but rather a pattern, i.e. a way of programming something. By means of AJAX web content can be retrieved via Javascript, i.e. […]
Nowadays you will hardly find a website without it. What is it what I’m taling about? Did you already guess it? I mean Like buttons, Share buttons, Like counter, avatars, etc. – if you look at today’s network landscape, it’s hard to imagine that there was a time before all that fancy stuff.