[thelist] ajax question, server vs. client request

[Matt Warden]

On 8/12/05, Anthony <apwebdesign at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking of doing an ajax site, which will query
> craiglist rss feeds. I've read a little bit about
> xmlhttprequest function, used by ajax sites, my
> question is, will the request to the craiglist server
> be coming from my server ip, or the browser/client ip
> address?

Your ajax app will need to proxy the request through your server,
because XMLHTTP and variants can only open URIs with the same server
name as the application, for security reasons.

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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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