Question

I don’t think this is possible, but it never hurts to ask.

Is there any way for me to host a file (or folder) on someone else’s domain (with their permission, of course)? For example, if their site is hosted at www.example.com, I would like to host a file at www.example.com/foo.html, or a folder at www.example.com/foo/, or the like. I just need to be able to make changes at will to a single file.

We can’t use a redirect or anything like that – the purpose of this is to allow me to control a document loaded in an <iframe> on their site, and for the JavaScript in that <iframe> to have access (i.e., no security restrictions) to its parent page – which is only allowed if the domains match. Their site doesn’t change the document.domain property to relax the security restrictions, nor can we ask them to start using that approach (it’s an enormous site).

I also can’t generate an <iframe> and create its document solely using JavaScript – we’ve done that in the past, and it gets around the security restrictions (the generated <iframe> is in the same domain as its parent page), but it causes other issues and difficulties that add up to a deal-breaker in this case.

Please let me know if you have any alternative suggestions, or if you need any more information about what exactly I’m trying to do.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

I hope I’m understanding this correctly. Since you have their permission to host a file on their site, can you just use FTP? They can set you up to only be able to drop files in one directory on their site, and you can edit the file there.