You can make such cross-domain AJAX calls with a PHP proxy. In the following example the proxy is capable of calling REST web services that return a JSON string.
wsproxy.php
if (!isset($_POST["username"]) || !isset($_POST["password"]))
die("Username or password not set.");
$username = $_POST["username"];
$password = $_POST["password"];
if (!isset($_GET['url'])
die("URL was not set.");
//Rebuild URL (needed if the url passed as GET parameter
//also contains GET parameters
$url = $_GET['url'];
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
if ($key != 'url') {
$url .= "&" . $key . "=" . $value;
}
}
//Set username and password for HTTP Basic Authentication
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("$username:$password")
)
));
//Call WS
$json = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
// Read HTTP Status
if(isset($http_response_header[0]))
list($version,$status_code,$msg) =
explode(' ',$http_response_header[0], 3);
// Check HTTP Status
if($status_code != 200) {
if($status_code == 404) {
die("404 - Not Found");
} else {
die($status_code . " - Error");
}
}
//Add content header
header('Content-Type: application/json');
print $json;
?>
URL usage
Note that if you don't need to pass username and password, then a GET request is sufficient.
$.ajax({
type : "POST",
url : "http://" + document.domain +
"/wsproxy.php?url=http://wsToCall.com/ws/resource?param1=false¶m2=true",
dataType : "json",
success : handleRedirects,
data: { username: "foo", password: "bar" }
});