Is it possible to use AJAX to call a RESTful service from within our game? Either HttpGet or HttpPost?
Calling external APIs
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Yup, with XmlHttpRequest
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So it's available from within the Engine? And it'd be callable just like any AJAX call on a webpage would?Yup, with XmlHttpRequest
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Yes.So it's available from within the Engine? And it'd be callable just like any AJAX call on a webpage would?
I only tested it while running the game from chrome, but I assume it would work the same way with the windows exe. -
I thought cross domain XHR doesn't work? I guess I'm wrong. lol
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If using Chrome, adding in an "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" HTTP header to all out-going responses from the server eliminates this... It also allows for the file:// protocol to work as well for testing stuff locally. Of course, this wuld mean you'd have to create your own service in order to add this response header, but that's easy enough to do with C# and WebAPI. Accessing someone else's server though... There'd be a challenge.
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hue... it is not even hard to cross site :p
http://game.darkkyshadow.com/dashboard/
uses cross site scripts from
www.darkkyshadow.com
all you have to do is to set Access-Control-Allow-Origin flag
For people who are lazy, there is chrome plugin that disables Access-Control-Allow-Origin entirely. Making all websites Access-Control-Allow-Origin * -
Why would it be a challenge to "access" someone else's server?If using Chrome, adding in an "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" HTTP header to all out-going responses from the server eliminates this... It also allows for the file:// protocol to work as well for testing stuff locally. Of course, this wuld mean you'd have to create your own service in order to add this response header, but that's easy enough to do with C# and WebAPI. Accessing someone else's server though... There'd be a challenge.
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Servers usually reject ajax requests that comes from a different domain.Why would it be a challenge to "access" someone else's server?
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I was confusing AJAX with a simple RESTful implementation, where client queries some server through an API and then you just handle the response.Servers usually reject ajax requests that comes from a different domain.