On 3 December 2015 at 22:33, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!
Though it is yet another app that displays similar info ... >> 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 Excellent! >> 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
