[OpenLayers-Users] Problems embedding OpenLayers in a Blog

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

Yes exactly,
but if I host the page on archive.org then I can access the data on
the same domain.
I had a misconception about this whole thing, obviously mashups are
going to create a lot more server sided traffic.
mike

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> as for OpenLayers, it shouldn't be a problem to get it hosted nearly
> everywhere since it is only JavaScript. Obviously you cannot use any
> datasource, though. Maybe you can set up a proxy that handles the requests,
> but I'd doubt that it is possible for your current *.blogspot.com-adress.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>
>
> jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your advice. That is interesting.
>> I never did anything like this, and I feed pretty stupid right now!
>>
>> But it will be possible to host the webpages on archive.org as well
>> and work without the blog itself. It just would be nice to separate
>> the display and the data storage. That effectively reduces the usage
>> of openlayers to people who have control of domains, right? It will
>> not be possible to people to just create maps with any data they want
>> without a server to proxy the data.
>>
>> Now, this example, it displays an openstreetmap map
>> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2009/12/test-of-osm-server.html
>>
>> but the fetch to :
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/24315294/full
>> that fails, or never returns.
>>
>> But the same one to use open layer to load the data from osm fails :
>> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2009/12/get-osm-data-directly.html
>>
>> It calles get on this url
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/24315294
>> in the request  XMLHttpRequest.js (line 200)
>>
>> the other thing is that I dont get any error message about security
>> problems
>>
>> I found this document here:
>> http://docs.openlayers.org/library/request.html
>>
>> So, realistically it is not possible to host open layers on a blog?
>>
>>
>> mike
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> I am pretty sure that you aren't allowed to acces datasources via
>>> XHR/AJAX
>>> from other servers than the one the original page is served from.
>>>
>>> see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy
>>>
>>> Just a quick guess, though.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Marc
>>>
>>>
>>> jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>> I have attempted to embed openlayers in a blog post,
>>>> and am failing! Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> using osm data hosted OSM data on archive.org
>>>> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2009/12/test-embed.html
>>>>
>>>> here is get a octet bytestream because archive org does not say the
>>>> right filetype.
>>>> http://ia341335.us.archive.org/2/items/ZCTA_NJ/zip_07003.poly.osm this
>>>> returns a 206 partial content and fails.
>>>>
>>>> in a pastebin file that is delivered as text:
>>>> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2009/12/hosting-on-pastebin.html
>>>> Date    Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:15:43 GMT
>>>> Server  Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_python/2.7.10 Python/2.3.4
>>>> PHP/4.3.10-22 mod_perl/1.29
>>>> X-Powered-By    PHP/4.3.10-22
>>>> Content-Disposition     attachment; filename="f28514ba0.txt"
>>>> Keep-Alive      timeout=15, max=100
>>>> Connection      Keep-Alive
>>>> Transfer-Encoding       chunked
>>>> Content-Type    text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>>>
>>>> So the problem might be the attachment...
>>>>
>>>> and that data from osm directly again on pastebin,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2009/12/osm-data-from-xml-output-on-pastebin.html
>>>> data is here :http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f290d5ea6 it returns a
>>>> 200 ok.
>>>> It returns an : text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 but does not render.
>>>> But there is still nothing there
>>>>
>>>> from osm directly
>>>> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2009/12/get-osm-data-directly.html
>>>> firebug says :no element found
>>>>
>>>> And my last try was to put the code from osm on the page directly,
>>>> also not rendering but the xml is loading.
>>>> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2009/12/test-of-osm-server.html
>>>>
>>>> but nothing is working
>>>>
>>>> would appreciate any tips and help
>>>> thanks
>>>> mike
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