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Andreas
Andreas

Reputation: 2083

Javascript: Difference between location.hostname and document.domain?

What is the difference between using location.hostname and document.domain?

I think an explanation with an example would be helpful.

Upvotes: 31

Views: 10515

Answers (1)

user113716
user113716

Reputation: 322542

It seems that document.domain is a read only property, except in Mozilla, which lets you change the value of the domain that is used for the same origin policy of (for example) AJAX requests without actually updating the page.

The restrictions on this are the same rules of the Same Origin Policy.

At least this is my understanding of the MDC docs for document.domain.

From the docs:

Gets/sets the domain portion of the origin of the current document, as used by the same origin policy.

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In the DOM HTML specification, this property is listed as being read-only. However, Mozilla will let you set it to a superdomain of the current value, constrained by its base domain. For example, on developer.mozilla.org it is possible to set it to "mozilla.org" but not "mozilla.com" or "org".

Try updating document.domain and window.location.hostname to a new value in the console, and see the difference.

Upvotes: 17

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