On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:03:52AM +0200, Stephan Knauss wrote: > I extended JOSM RemoteControl to provide protocol version information. > Besides the possibility for clients to choose a compatible command set > this enables web pages to query for a running JOSM. > > Because of restrictions due to same origin policy this was not possible > with the existing plugin. RemoteControl now implements CORS (simple > requests without preflight) as well as jsonp for the version check. > > I implemented a live demo on the cuisine map. In the upper right corner > will be an edit button in case a running RemoteCotnrol is detected. > > http://toolserver.org/~stephankn/cuisine/ > > The new API command is documented on the wiki: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/RemoteControl > > Hope somebody considers this useful.
I don't like the idea that every web page can now find out whether I run JOSM and which version it is. The CORS stuff in the plugin should at least be optional (and the default should be OFF)! Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
