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Asked: 2026-05-12T07:25:07+00:00

I have an existing jQuery plugin which makes a lot of AJAX calls (mostly

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I have an existing jQuery plugin which makes a lot of AJAX calls (mostly JSON). I am wondering what is the quickest to allow it to do cross-site calls i.e. the $.get and $.post URL’s will not be from the same domain.

I have heard of JSONP, but was wondering if someone could give me an concrete example to go about the whole process. I want to make minimal changes if possible to my script. Should I use a proxy.php of sorts?

Thank you for your time.

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  1. Editorial Team

    JSONP will allow you to do cross-site calls. See jQuery docs on that matter.

    The concept is simple: instead of doing a normal Ajax call, jQuery will append a <script> tag to your <head>. In order for this to work, your JSON data needs to be wrapped in a
    function call.

    Your server needs to send information in such way (PHP example):

    $json = json_encode($data);
echo $_GET['jsonp_callback'] . '(' . $json . ');';

    Then, you can use jQuery to fetch that information:

    $.ajax({
  dataType: 'jsonp',
  jsonp: 'jsonp_callback',
  url: 'http://myotherserver.com/getdata',
  success: function () {
    // do stuff
  },
});

    More information is available here: What is JSONP?

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