Xampp accepts Ajax requests - javascript

I am trying to implement an API on my system, but every time of the problem, I do locally ... via server on hosting, handle calmly.
I have a question that is as follows, does XAMPP accept Ajax? I searched the internet and found nothing about it.

Ajax is just a term for making an HTTP request from client-side JavaScript without leaving the current webpage.
As far as the HTTP server is concerned, there is no real difference between an HTTP request initiated using Ajax and one initiated using any other method.
The only proviso is that browsers implement a Same Origin Policy which can lead to the browser forbidding JavaScript from reading the response (or, in the case of preflighted requests, making the request in the first place) unless the server adds headers granting explicit permission.
Apache HTTPD (the HTTP server distributed with XAMPP) is quite capable of being configured to add these headers, but it is more common to add them using a server-side programming language (such as PHP).

It should work, I've done it anyway. You may have to check the error log to find out why its failing. First off what does your browser log for code or connection issues, this will detail if its a CORS issue (F12 in chrome for me)? If the issue isn't there then you may have to check the Xampp log: \xampp\apache\logs\error.log for that application.
Also can be done this way:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/38347316/10980320

Yes, XAMPP accepts AJAX requests! All requests, no matter whether they're through AJAX or just directly visiting the page through a browser, request and receive the data in a specific way. As far as I know, there isn't really a way to not support one type of request or another, although they can probably be blocked.
Feel free to correct me.

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Request external domain and not care about the response content without using cors or proxy or anything outside of javascript

So a couple of days ago i was looking for something like this and had actually found it but never found a use for it. I know its listed somewhere on mozilla's site but i forget what the function is called.
In anycase i wish to request an external domain that doesn't have cors and does not requir external help from things like proxy's. its a rather recent function added to javascript as when i read about it (before i forgot the name) it was listed as expiremental technology. It's supposedly a safe alternative to CORS the only catch is unlike cors you are not allowed to view the response.
What i want to use it for is to basically see if the status code returned is 404 or 200 so i can tell users whether a specific site is having issues and since the ammount of sites that would be requested is huge if i do it server side id prefer to have it done in a clients browser only on specific pages.
I think you could get by with sending a HEAD HTTP request.

can I make the browser ignore the (CORS) rules?

I want a simple javascript script that exists on my localhost to make a connection to another domain(eg: anotherdomain.com) with ajax and get the response , but all my browsers tell me that error of (connection blocked , Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing)
but when I check the network traffic with network monitor program like (fiddler), I see that the response already came from the server at (anotherdomain.com) to my local machine , it is just my browser who is blocking me from getting it !!
1- can I order my browser to ignore the CORS rules using javascript code?
2- what is my options to overcome this problem? is building a custom client disktop application with c# to send and receive requests freely is the best way to do it?
3- is CORS policy designed to protect the web clients or the web servers ?
thank you, and please consider that I'm complete newbie in web
but when I check the network traffic with network monitor program like (fiddler), I see that the response already came from the server at (anotherdomain.com) to my local machine , it is just my browser who is blocking me from getting it !!
Well for sure, the connection was estabilished to check the presence of the header you mentioned, but data was unlikely to be transferred.
Regarding your questions,
There are 2 options actually. One is to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header with proper origin according to yours. The second is to make a JSONP call, though the response of server must support such a solution.
The best option is to have a server with the above header specified. Your server would handle all the network stuff on its side and your script would just get/send some responses/requests.
I would say it designed more to protect the server. Imagine the following situations. Your script on your site makes a lot of POST requests to the another site. Actions like submitting forms etc. could happen and would be allowed. That's harmful, right? You can read about that in this stack question.

Have someone modify javascript code without write access

I would like to test out some interviewees by having them write some javascript that will make requests against my server. I don't want to give them write access to my code base. Javascript runs on the client side, so this should technically be possible. However I know there are browser restrictions that say that the javascript has to come from the server?
I apologize that this is a really dumb question, but how should I proceed?
Edit:::
Ok, so I failed to mention that the entire application is based off sending JSON objects to and from the server.
I think you're thinking of the javascript XMLHttpRequest object itself, in which case, yes the current standard is for browsers to block cross-domain calls. So, you can tell them to pretend they either have a separate proxy script on their own personal domain which will allow them to leap to yours, or to pretend they're building a page directly served from your domain. There's talk of browsers supporting trust certificates or honoring special setups between source and target servers, but nothing universally accepted AFAIK.
Javascript source itself does not need to come from the server, and in fact this is how you can get around this little XMLHttpRequest block by using json. Here's a simple json tutorial I just dug up from Yahoo. But, this calls for your server to provide a json format feed if your server is the intended target.
"there are browser restrictions that say that the javascript has to come from the server"
I'm not aware of any situation where that's the case, only a lack of a console. But...even in those cases there's the address bar and javascript:.
If I misunderstood and you're talking about cross-domain restrictions, then your server needs to support JSONP for the requests so they can make cross-domain calls for data.
You could POST the javascript to your server and then your server can send back some HTML that has the javascript inlined. Sounds like you're trying to set up something is, more or less, a homebrew version of http://jsfiddle.net/; AFAIK, jsfiddle just does a "POST javascript/CSS/HTML and return HTML".

Possible to make HTTP request to a web browser?

This question is for my curiosity only:
Is it possible to make a HTTP request from a backend server to a web browser, that is to say I have a HTTP server ON the web browser to listen for incoming HTTP requests?
Cause I want to use frontend <-> couchdb directly thus dumping the backend server .. but then i wondered how i would do normal processing when the database javascript is not sufficient.
That thought made me think of this question.
Generally speaking — no.
There are some exceptions, Opera has a feature called "Unite" which allows it to run a web server (this is not turned on by default!) as well as acting as a user agent. That wouldn't allow you to send a response to a request that hadn't been made though.
Most web browsers don't have a web server and they are unable to accept HTTP requests. Maybe there is an extension for Firefox, but that's not a typical use case.
Depending on what you are trying to achieve, using Comet or long polling could work for you.

Suppressing browser's authentication dialog

I apologize that there is a similar question already but I'd like to ask it more broadly.
Is there any way at all to determine on the client side of a web application if requesting a resource will return a 401 status code and cause the browser to display an ugly authentication dialog?
Or, is there any way at all to load an mp3 audio resource in flash which fails invisibly in the case of a 401 status code rather than letting the browser show an ugly dialog?
The Adobe Air run-time will suppress the authentication if I set the "authenticate" property of the URLRequest object but this property is not in the Flash run-time. Any solution which works on the client will do. An XMLHttpRequest is not likely to work as the resources in questions will be at different domains.
It is important to fail invisibly because the application will have a list of many audio resources to try and it makes no sense to bother the user to try and authenticate for one when there are many others available. It is important that the solution work on the client because the mp3's in question come from various servers outside my control.
I'm having the same problem with the twitter api - any protected user requires the client to authenticate.
The only solution that I could come up with was to load the pages serverside and return a list of the urls with their http response code.
"Is there any way at all to determine on the client side of a web application if requesting a resource will return a 401 status code and cause the browser to display an ugly authentication dialog?"
No, not in general. The 401 response is the only standard way for the server to indicate that authentication is necessary.
Just wrap your access to the resource that might potentially require authentication to an Ajax call. You can catch the response code, and use javascript to do whatever you want (ie. play that sound). If the response code is however alright, then use javascript to forward user to the resource.
Most likely this approach will generate slightly more load on server (you might have to resort to loading the same resource several times in some circumstances), but it should work. Any good tutorial about how to use XMLHttpRequest should contain all you need. Take a look at for instance http://www.xul.fr/en-xml-ajax.html
If you are using URLRequest to get the files, then you are running across more than just elegant error handling, you are running into a fundamental difference in the Flash and AIR run-times.
If using the URLRequest object to retrieve files you are going to get a security error from Flash on every request to every server that has not set a policy file to allow these sort of requests. AIR allows these requests since it basically IS the client. This makes sense since it's the difference between installing an application and visiting a web page.
I hate to provide the non-answer, but if you can't make a server-side call, and you are hitting a range of "not-known" servers, it's going to be a tough road to hoe.
But maybe I misunderstand, are you just trying to Link to the files and prevent the user from getting bad links, or are you trying to actually load the files?

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