Same origin policy

Question

Maybe some of you can help me get a better understanding of the javascript same origin policy.

The same origin policy is defined as following (http://en.wikipedia.or

Answer 1

You can get Yahoo Finance using JSONP, so that is most definitely what you are using.

An example URL is...

http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query=Apple&callback=YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback

When the request has loaded, it will call the callback you define in the GET param. This allows you to work around same origin policy, provided the service has support for JSONP.

Alternatively, some people use their server as a proxy.