Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 11 March 99

Foil 12 Same Origin Policy

From Overview of JavaScript II -- From Cookies to Dynamical HTML CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox (Tom Scavo)
An important bug fix appeared in NN2:
  • Scripts from one server may not read properties of windows or documents from another server
See this URL for an interesting account: http://www.osf.org/~loverso/javascript/
For example, a script from home.netscape.com may not read the properties of a document loaded from developer.netscape.com

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