How to use Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://www.example.com?

Question

I want to make HTTPS calls from an HTTP webpage. I hope to solve this problem with Access-Control-Allow-Origin. How can I use it?

Answer 1

On the HTTPS page (that you are requesting from the HTTP page) set the header:

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

You can do this in PHP with:

Alternatively if that doesn't work, you could create a file on your HTTP server (where the request is coming from) that downloads and displays the contents, this can be done in PHP with:

I would not advise doing this as it requires extra bandwidth and isn't good practice, it should only be used if you can't do the first option. Furthermore, if a developer has set the access control to be restricted it's probably for a reason.