“Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin” error for request made by application running from a file:// URL

Question

I\'m developing a page that pulls images from Flickr and Panoramio via jQuery\'s AJAX support.

The Flickr side is working fine, but when I try to $.get(url, ca

Answer 1

You need to maybe add a HEADER in your called script, here is what I had to do in PHP:

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');

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