Provide external data: failing due to SOP

[Fabian]

Hi!

We are using EtherPad Lite to write papers. Therefor we want to
"include" our literature database. Every citations is represented by
and id surrounded by brackets e.g. [[2279]]. For comfort reasons I
want to have an mouseover for that citations to get the author, title,
etc. shown in a tooltip. Therefor I have to send an request to the
literature database (which is running on the same server but as php
application on port 80). Due to the different ports I get in conflict
with the same-origin-policy using AJAX to get stuff done in the
background.

Can anybody see a possibility how avoid this?

Is it possible to "re-route" the request via etherpad? jQuery -> send
request on port 9001 -> node.js -> redirect request to literature
databse on port 80 -> send data back the same way. But I'm not into
node.js at all, so I see no possibility how to get this into the code.

[John McLear]

I use varnish to handle the same-origin-policy issue.

[Fabian]

Unfortunately I must use a Windows host.

[John McLear]

In production?

[Fabian]

On 26 Jan., 16:28, John McLear <johnym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In production?
Yes, we use etherpad lite on a windows host as "productive" system.

[Eugene Mirotin]

In your PHP app add Access-Control-Allow-Origin: Etherpad address (on the code level add an extra header in response to OPTIONS request or set it up on the web server's level)

[John McLear]

Did this work for you?

[Fabian]

On 30 Jan., 17:53, John McLear <johnym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did this work for you?

Haven't tried that. But there has been another message (just send to
me, don't know why not as an answer here) proposing a reverse proxy.
I just managed to get this reverse proxy running (IIS 7, not my
favourite webserver) on a test machine. Now everything is running on
the same host and port:

http://mysystem/etherpad
http://mysystem/lit

As soon as I get this running on our productive system I will test the
ajax stuff and report here!

[Fabian]

I've now installed the reverse proxy on our live system and everything
is working fine. Ajax requests are possible and everything I need is
available.

If somebody else is working with Etherpad Lite on windows and has to
use the IIS and wants to achieve the same thing I have done: See
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosag/archive/2010/04/02/setting-up-a-reverse-proxy-using-iis-url-rewrite-and-arr.aspx?Redirected=true
for information about how to set up a reverse proxy.

On 31 Jan., 16:22, Fabian <fpfan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30 Jan., 17:53, John McLear <johnym...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Did this work for you?
>
> Haven't tried that. But there has been another message (just send to
> me, don't know why not as an answer here) proposing a reverse proxy.
> I just managed to get this reverse proxy running (IIS 7, not my
> favourite webserver) on a test machine. Now everything is running on
> the same host and port:
>

> http://mysystem/etherpadhttp://mysystem/lit

[John McLear]

Great job :) Thanks!