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Nicolas Gallagher edited this page Jan 26, 2012 · 2 revisions

crossdomain.xml

What's crossdomain.xml for?

A cross-domain policy file is an XML document that grants a web client—such as Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, etc.—permission to handle data across multiple domains. When a client hosts content from a particular source domain and that content makes requests directed towards a domain other than its own, the remote domain would need to host a cross-domain policy file that grants access to the source domain, allowing the client to continue with the transaction. Policy files grant read access to data, permit a client to include custom headers in cross-domain requests, and are also used with sockets to grant permissions for socket-based connections.

For full details, check out Adobe's article about Cross-domain policy file specification

Read the specification: Cross-domain policy file specification - (PDF, 129 KB)

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