Question

I would like to make an ajax call to a different server (same domain and box, just a different port.) e.g.

My page is

 http://localhost/index.html 

I would like to make a ajax get request to:

 http://localhost:7076/?word=foo 

I am getting this error:

 Access to restricted URI denied (NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)  

I know that you can not make an ajax request to a different domain, but it seem this also included different ports? are there any workarounds?

Answer 1

Have a certain page on your port 80 server proxy requests to the other port. For example:

http://localhost/proxy?port=7076&url=%2f%3fword%3dfoo 

Note the url encoding on the last query string argument value.