If you’ve come across an “Access to restricted URI denied” error then you’re probably having the same problem. The solution is to use a proxy on the domain where the AJAX controls are hosted. This proxy receives the HTTP requests from the AJAX controls and can forward them on to the other domain.

For an example of how to do this, you can check out guproxy.php which is my simple single file PHP script for forwarding AJAX requests (from the SACK AJAX library) to the AJAX interface of Gutuma. As a security precaution it limits forwarded requests based on the destination url, and the filters the POST variables to those used by Gutuma.  Other solutions I’ve seen don’t do this and thus leave your proxy script open to abuse.

<?php header('Content-Type: application/x-javascript'); ?>
/**
 * This file is a server-side merge of first.js and second.js
 *
 * ------------------------------ first.js -------------------------------
 */
 
<?php echo file_get_contents('first.js'); ?>
 
/**
 * ---------------------------- second.php ----------------------------
 */
 
<?php echo file_get_contents('second.js'); ?>

This simple approach could be used where you’ve got a lot of JS files and you want to speed up access times.