Cross-origin XHR from a user script in Google Chrome

Question

Has anybody had any luck performing cross origin XHRs from a user script in Google Chrome? The requests go through to the server (I can see them in the logs) but, the

Answer 1

As of Chrome 13, you can do cross origin requests in Content Scripts if you included the permission to the website in the manifest.

A user script in Chrome is a content script. Content scripts cannot make cross-origin XHRs. If you wish to do cross-origin XHRs, it should be done in the extension pages (background, popup, options).

For more info: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html