Category: AJAX

  • Working with the Flickr API

    Flickr provides exemplary tools and documentation for their popular API and is also an excellent case study for social classification in the wild, so it’s worth taking a little time to understand their API. The App Garden is Flickr’s main API documentation page and the best place to start. From here you can “Create an…

  • Working around the same-origin policy

    As part of the basic security model of the Web, sites can’t usually make requests to pages on other domains — if they could, then just visiting any random site on the Web having recently logged in to your email could reveal the entire contents of your email to an attacker! In class we briefly…