"Origin non null" from this JavaScript: why?

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Cross-Domain Requests with jQuery

$(function () {
    (function getFeed() {
        $
            .get('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml')
            .done(function (feed) {
                console.info('\Feed received: ', feed);
                displayProgrammes(feed);
            })
            .fail(function () {
                console.info('\nError getting the feed.');
            })
    }());
});

It's a simple Ajax request, nothing more. And yet I get the error message:

Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

It's a simple *cross-domain* Ajax request which isn't possible out of the box. — Pekka, Nov 01 '11 at 15:03
@Random that doesn't matter, it's a browser side security mechanism. — Pekka, Nov 01 '11 at 15:05
@Randomblue: use a server side action (php, ruby, whatever) to access crossdomain or check if they offer a JSONP-Interface. — campino2k, Nov 01 '11 at 15:07
@Pekka: Check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494#userss for the paragraph "Using BBC news feeds on your site" — Randomblue, Nov 01 '11 at 15:10
You could try this: http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/11/cross-domain-rss-to-json-converter.html — Shawn Chin, Nov 01 '11 at 15:11
@Random so? It doesn't matter whether they are okay with it or not. As said, it's a browser side security mechanism, limited to JavaScript. It has nothing to do with the BBC at all. — Pekka, Nov 01 '11 at 15:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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Requests in AJAX can only be made to the same domain, this is called the Same Origin Policy ->

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy

(Example of a way around this issue using PHP as a proxy : http://devtreats.blogspot.com/search/label/ajax)

There is another way .... YQL -> Cross-Domain Requests with jQuery

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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"Origin non null" from this JavaScript: why?

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