On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:15 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been trying to integrate the public/committee-info.json and > public/member-info.json files into a the Javascript used by the new > Apache Phone Book [1].
Excellent! > Unfortunately it appears that Javascript cannot > be used to download files except from the same origin. > > Whilst it would be possible to copy the files locally as part of a > cron job or as part of a CGI script, that seems a bit > unnecessary/wasteful if direct access can be arranged. > > AFAICT, access can be enabled by using the server header > > Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * > > Would it be possible to add this to the responses sent when GETting > the public/* json files? Committed revision 974450 > Or are there good reasons for not enabling the ACAO header here? None that I can think of. This data is meant to be truly public. > [1] http://home.apache.org/phonebook.html - Sam Ruby
