Hello,

Our cross domain policy file is intentionally setup to exclude any and
all 3rd party websites. This is a permanent decision. The only way to
work around this is to setup a server-side proxy.

Thanks,
-Chad

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:35 PM,
torontocitylife<patr...@torontocitylife.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what's going on with Twitter's crossdomain policy
> file? I read -- over a year and a half ago -- that they were
> temporarily blocking broad access because of security holes. The
> crossdomain file still reads:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <cross-domain-policy xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
> instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.adobe.com/xml/
> schemas/PolicyFile.xsd">
>  <allow-access-from domain="twitter.com" />
>        <allow-access-from domain="api.twitter.com" />
>        <allow-access-from domain="search.twitter.com" />
>        <allow-access-from domain="static.twitter.com" />
>        <site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="master-only"/>
>  <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*.twitter.com" headers="*"
> secure="true"/>
> </cross-domain-policy>
>
> ...which means Twitter is disallowing access from anything other than
> the twitter.com domain, meaning no access to any web-based apps
> without a server-side proxy workaround. Wasn't this supposed to be
> temporary? And why even have a web-based API if they're still, a year
> and a half later, actively disallowing connections to it?
>

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