[OpenLayers-Dev] WFS without proxy

[Phil Scadden]

>
> This is not particularly useful for cross-domain requests though - 
> unless the service returns JSON padded with a callback.
>
> E.g.
>
> http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wfs?VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&TYPENAME=tiger:poi&MAXFEATURES=1&OUTPUTFORMAT=json&FORMAT_OPTIONS=callback:foo 
>
>
> Using syntax like the request above, you can dynamically inject 
> scripts into your page that load features cross-origin.
That looks exceedingly useful to me! I use script injection a lot to get 
around local file restrictions in Chrome and cross-site access. How 
would go about building that into OL as alternative to POST for wfs 
getfeature queries?

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