Using AJAX to send a request to a remote php file

[Elizabeth King]

I want to use Ajax to send a request to a remote php file and I got XmlHttpRequest object successfully,
but got a exception at the following line:

xmlHttpRequest.open('POST', "http://www.XYZ.com/php/my.php", true);

In FireFox, the exception is: Access to restricted URI denied code: "1012"

I also tried IE and Safari and got a similar error at the same line of the code.

I know I can call remote Java object (servlet) in the same way, why not php?

[Paul Clapham]

Sounds like the browsers are rejecting an XSS (cross-site scripting) attack. Using AJAX to connect to a server other than the one the page came from is a no-no. At least that's what I think... I will move this post to the Javascript forum where people more knowledgeable than me hang out.

[Eric Pascarello]

JavaScript has a same domain policy, you can not interact with different domains. You need to look into using a serverside proxy.

Eric

[Bear Bibeault]

Please keep the conversation to within a single topic.