AJAX cross domain call

Question

I know about AJAX cross-domain policy. So I can\'t just call \"http://www.google.com\" over a ajax HTTP request and display the results somewhere on my site.

I tried

Answer 1

You can use the technology CORS to configure both servers (the server where the Javascript is running and the external API server)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS

p.s.: the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/37384641/6505594 is also suggesting this approach, and it's opening the external API server to everyone else to call it.