On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Teemu Ikonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Matt Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 5, 8:30 am, Teemu Ikonen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I need a simple proxy controller for a paste-deployed pylons app. > >> Simple means taking URLs of the form "/proxy?url=http://example.com"; > >> and returning the unmodified reply from example.com. > >> > >> I could hack something together on the WSGI-level, but I would rather > >> not reinvent the wheel if there is an elegant solution using webob > >> objects. > > > > If I had to do this, I would use something like urllib2.urlopen. > > > > If performance matters, you might want to play with caching the data. > > > > But why not open an iframe on the client? Why proxy? > > > > I'm curious about what WSGI stuff you would try. > > Hi, > > My objective is to get around the same origin policy to make AJAX > calls to another host. One way to do this is to route the requests > through a proxy on the original server. > > Could I somehow use an iframe to get around this (I'm really a newbie > on this stuff)? > > Currently I'm thinking of writing a controller which gets the URL from > a query parameter, constructs a new Request, calls paste.proxy with it > and returns the Response from the proxy. This probably can be made to > work, but I'm not terribly happy with this solution, so if anyone has > a better idea, please let me know. > > Teemu You could use something like window.name transport<http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/07/22/windowname-transport/>, which is a secure way to go cross site without a proxy. I had some trouble getting this to work in the past, so if you get it going, I'd love to see what you come up with. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
