On 19 March 2015 at 08:15, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > If you’re using a script this doesn’t effect you, JSONP and CORS are two > methods for allowing the javascript on example.com to access a JSON URL on > example.net. They are ways of getting around the fact that the browser doesn't > generally allow cross origin requests. > > JSONP is problematic for a variety of security reasons, and it exists > primarily > as a hack to work around the fact that browsers didn't let you make HTTP > requests with javascript to another domain. CORS is the standard, supported, > and secure way of doing it. It's also a heck of a lot simpler.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
