“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

I use Apache server, so I've used mod_proxy module. Enable modules:

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

Then add:

ProxyPass /your-proxy-url/ http://service-url:serviceport/

Finally, pass proxy-url to your script.