jquery.load() not working in IE while loading html file from another port

Question

Code

$('.form').load('http://'+window.location.hostname+':8423/html/form/form_generate.html/?session='+session);

• We are trying to load a html file from another port number in the same server.
• The original server is located at 8000 port.
• The users will access the application using the ipaddress and port no. for ex: 189.45.23.56:8000
• Firefox seems to be loading this fine.
• IE is neither throwing any error nor loading the file.
• After exploring a little bit, I came to know about the "cross origin policy".

Is there any work around for this?

Answer 1

Ok. The problem seems to be a bug in jquery. We should add $.support.cors = true; to make cross domain requests work.

Answer 2

As far as I know: Even another port is considered cross origin request. There are two quick workarounds coming into my mind right now:

1. Try to host both websites under the same port
2. Using JsonP to get the content cross origin

There was another way to allow cross origin access by alternate the settings of the webserver, but not sure how to do this excactly.