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Ruby

Christopher Stillman
Christopher Stillman
7,304 Points
Posted by Christopher Stillman
Christopher Stillman
7,304 Points

Net::HTTP Proxy

Does anyone have a novice friendly resource showing how to use Net::HTTP in Ruby/Rails to create a proxy to get around the same-origin policy?

I've spent about three weeks learning a dozen ways you can't do it and all seems to point to me needing to build a web proxy.

I would appreciate any resources or even a good learning starting point.

Just to give some background on my problem I have a site A that I can send specific URL to get back an XML page and I want to parse that response data on my site B for viewing with JavaScript.

I've had quite a hard learning curve of learning that I can't use ajax, iframes, dynamic JS tags, flash hax, jsonp, or json and that the server doesn't support CORS.

1 Answer

Christopher Stillman
Christopher Stillman
7,304 Points
Christopher Stillman
Christopher Stillman
7,304 Points

I took a few months to learn, but what I figured out for my use case was to use Ruby on Rails and HTTParty gem to call the API I was pulling data from and then dump this data into a view. From there other views could parse the data with JS as needed. There is probably a more efficient way to do this but this worked for me.