Questions tagged [same-origin-policy]

The same-origin-policy is one of several models that web browsers use to determine which JavaScript files in a webpage should be executed. This is determined by the domain (the origin).

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Why is the same origin policy so important?

I can't really fully understand what same origin domain means. I know it means that when getting a resource from another domain (say a JS file) it will run from the context of the domain that serves ...
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