Is there a XDomainRequest equivalent in Firefox?

Question

Is there an equivalent to Internet Explorer\'s XDomainRequest in Firefox or any of the other browsers?

I\'d like to access a service/website outside of my domain.

Answer 1

It's possible, you just have to set Cross-Domain headers at the target server.

.htaccess example:

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "X-Requested-With"
Header set Access-Control-Max-Age "60"

XmlHttpRequest will submit an OPTIONS request to the target server which will respond with those headers, allowing the client to submit the intended request.

Source: http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/blog/2011-05/cross-domain-ajax/index