Articles Tagged 'proxy'

WordPress Plugin: Flash Feed Scroll Reader

Taking a cue from post Create a simple Feed Reader with SimplePie and jQuery I created the first Plugin WordPress weblog Saidmade . Flash Feed Scroll Reader uses SimplePie to create a PHP proxy to access the different feed addresses.

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Very short trick: proxy RSS with SimplePie

If you use Flash or Ajax to read RSS feeds from other domains, you need to equip yourself with a proxy (tunneling) because of the protections imposed by both technologies (see tunneling and proxy servers for Ajax and beyond ). If your site or blog is already SimplePie , you can write a simple proxy like this:

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Tunneling and proxy servers, and not only for Ajax

Because of its ability to communicate with the server, the XMLHttpRequest object (XHR), used in the technology Ajax (an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which should be pronounced "egiacs" although we prefer Italian "aiacs"), has a security lock that prevents you from running applications outside the domain in which it operates. This protection is necessary to prevent JavaScript Injection (techniques of "injection" extremely dangerous code in order to break the system) of various kinds, with the ultimate objective of "break" in the system.
This limit is now taken seriously and you're thinking, somehow, to solve it - directly into the XmlHttpRequest - without compromising security (see also: Third Proposal for cross-site extensions to XMLHttpRequest ).

Whatever the situation today is as follows:

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