The default behavior of web browsers that initiate requests from a page via JavaScript (AKA AJAX) is that they follow the same-origin policy. This means that requests can only be made via AJAX to the same domain (or sub domain). Requests to an entirely different domain will fail. This restriction exists because requests made at … Read more
If you want to disable the same-origin policy on Safari (I have 9.1.1), then you only need to enable the developer menu, and select “Disable Cross-Origin Restrictions” from the develop menu.
You wont be able to do this from the client side because of the Same Origin Policy set by the browsers. You wont be able to get much information from the iFrame other than basic properties like its width and height. Also, google sets in its response header an ‘X-Frame-Options’ of SAMEORIGIN. Even if you … Read more
There’s a Firefox extension that adds the CORS headers to any HTTP response working on the latest Firefox (build 36.0.1) released March 5, 2015. I tested it and it’s working on both Windows 7 and Mavericks. I’ll guide you throught the steps to get it working. 1) Getting the extension You can either download the … Read more
The document.domain method Method type: iframe. Note that this is an iframe method that sets the value of document.domain to a suffix of the current domain. If it does so, the shorter domain is used for subsequent origin checks. For example, assume a script in the document at http://store.company.com/dir/other.html executes the following statement: document.domain = … Read more
tl;dr — There’s a summary at the end and headings in the answer to make it easier to find the relevant parts. Reading everything is recommended though as it provides useful background for understanding the why that makes seeing how the how applies in different circumstances easier. About the Same Origin Policy This is the Same … Read more
The same origin policy is applicable only for browser side programming languages. So if you try to post to a different server than the origin server using JavaScript, then the same origin policy comes into play but if you post directly from the form i.e. the action points to a different server like: <form action=”http://someotherserver.com”> … Read more
Same-origin policy You can’t access an <iframe> with different origin using JavaScript, it would be a huge security flaw if you could do it. For the same-origin policy browsers block scripts trying to access a frame with a different origin. Origin is considered different if at least one of the following parts of the address … Read more
If the <iframe> is from the same domain, the elements are easily accessible as $(“#iFrame”).contents().find(“#someDiv”).removeClass(“hidden”); Reference
If I understood it right you are doing an XMLHttpRequest to a different domain than your page is on. So the browser is blocking it as it usually allows a request in the same origin for security reasons. You need to do something different when you want to do a cross-domain request. A tutorial about … Read more