Jquery getJSON Not Working Cross Site

Question

I have a piece of javascript that grabs JSON data. When executed locally everything seems to work fine. However, when I try accessing it from a different site, it doesn\'t work.

Answer 1

From the documentation:

• Due to browser security restrictions, most "Ajax" requests are subject to the same origin policy; the request can not successfully retrieve data from a different domain, subdomain, or protocol.

• Script and JSONP requests are not subject to the same origin policy restrictions.

You're going to need to use JSONP to get past the same-origin policy. jQuery can make this seamless (see the rest of the aforementioned documentation page).