Submit cross domain ajax POST request

Question

I swear I saw an article about this at one point but can not find it...

How can I perform a jQuery ajax request of type POST on another domain? Must be accomplished without a proxy. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes you can POST all you want, even $.post() works...but you won't get a response back.

This works, the other domain will get the POST:

$.post("http://othersite.com/somePage.php", { thing: "value" }, function(data) {
  //data will always be null
});

But the response, data in the above example, will be null due to the same-origin policy.