795044 - Access MDN documentation in-browser with JavaScript

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 720068

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Collaboration, defect)

Description

[thomasmitchellanderson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1

Steps to reproduce:

Tried accessing MDN documentation with JavaScript (via CORS) and through a frame.


Actual results:

MDN disallows frames, and will not allow cross-domain requests.


Expected results:

I should, in someway, have been able to access the MDN documentation for use in a web application.

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Thanks for the report Thomas!  Can you let me know what endpoint you tried to hit?  Do you have a small sample HTML / JS file you could give me to see how you're trying to access MDN?

Comment 2

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

I don't think we have CORS headers turned on for the new wiki yet, but we need to do so. We're not intentionally blocking.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720068

Comment 3

[thomasmitchellanderson]

@David

I wasn't using any of the existing APIs -- I was just trying to access MDN in some way from a client-side application. I had tried frames and cross-domain xmlhttp requests, and neither was in place to work. It looks like Les pointed this in the right direction.

@Les

Ah, I'd never think Mozilla would intentionally block anything internet related! Thanks for pointing me to that other ticket.

So, yes. I was basically questioning whether (or requesting that) either CORS be allowed for the MDN api or just for accessing the wiki pages in general.