[OpenLayers-Users] getFeatureInfo errors

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:56:44AM -0400, Alessandro Ferrucci wrote:
> Maybe this is a dumb question but how do people manage this in production?
> I looked at this web site:
> http://taossa.com/index.php/2007/02/08/same-origin-policy/ that says that
> the policy looks at the port number.  Right now I have my geoserver instance
> on the below server at port 8080 and my webapp serving the geo web pages
> sits on the same host on port 8082.  I eventually want to have my geoserver
> on one machine and my webserver serving up the webpages on a different
> machine, I can't see how I can do this given this policy (I don't see the
> proxy script as a production solution).

Proxying -- either via a script, mod_rewrite, mod_proxy rules, or other
similar mechianisms in your webserver -- is the only way to manage loading
remote XML resources via Javascript.

I have used proxy scripts of various types for many production applications,
and there is no simple workaround to change this.

Best Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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