Also if you have to resort to using JSONP GWT 2.0 has a new JsonpRequestBuilder that wraps up any JSONP request nicely:
http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/javadoc/2.0/com/google/gwt/jsonp/client/JsonpRequestBuilder.html This superceeds the article on GWT Site. On Apr 5, 11:50 pm, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 5, 8:47 pm, powwow <jimmy.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > OMG! This one nearly killed our project. When SOP was introduced in > > development mode for GWT 2.0 our project screeched to a halt. We have > > a huge application with a GWT front end communicating with a Rails > > server doing JSON requests. We had GWT running onhttp://127.0.0.1:8888 > > and needed to connect to the rails server which ran onhttp://127.0.0.1:3000. > > The only difference was the port. Our application HAD to run in IE > > (no Firefox or Chome). We had hundreds of JSON calls doing GET, > > POST, PUT, DELETE all using RequestBuilder to communicate. > > > We tried ProxyServer scripts to forward urls to the Rails server, but > > many were just too basic not being able to handle PUTs, DELETEs, form > > uploads, headers and everything else. Half the calls worked, and half > > the calls failed. We didn't have time to program the perfect > > ProxyServer servlet. > > > We tried all the hacks including the Eclipse built in proxy server, > > enabling cross domain communication in IE in the options, lowering > > browser security levels, installing and uninstalling software, etc., > > all with no luck. > > > But we found something that did work for the time being. Here is a > > work around if you need to bypass SOP: Use IE 8! We used IE7 and it > > didn't work, but IE8 works! > > How about just using the -noserver argument to not run the server (as > you don't need it) and the -startUrl argument to pass the Rails app > URL so GWT gives you it back with the ?gwt.codesrv=... appended > appropriately. > Seehttp://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/FAQ_DebuggingAndCompilin... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
