Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at

Question

I\'m using CometChat in my website and recently my users art having this problem with receiving messages. After inspection in FireBug i realized it must be beca

Answer 1

The server at x3.chatforyoursite.com needs to output the following header:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.example.com

Where http://www.example.com is your website address. You should check your settings on chatforyoursite.com to see if you can enable this - if not their technical support would probably be the best way to resolve this. However to answer your question, you need the remote site to allow your site to access AJAX responses client side.

Answer 2

The use-case for CORS is simple. Imagine the site alice.com has some data that the site bob.com wants to access. This type of request traditionally wouldn’t be allowed under the browser’s same origin policy. However, by supporting CORS requests, alice.com can add a few special response headers that allows bob.com to access the data. In order to understand it well, please visit this nice tutorial.. How to solve the issue of CORS