Allow AJAX GETs from Amazon S3? (Access-Control-Allow-Origin)

Question

I\'m storing JSON objects in Amazon S3, and I\'d like to load that data directly from S3 from Javascript. My GET looks pretty generic:

$.ajax({
    \'type\':         


        

Answer 1

S3 doesn't send the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header if you use the wildcard * like:

*

To force s3 sending the AllowedOrigin header but still let your content be loaded from any site, use this:

http://*
https://*