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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: xhr</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/xhr.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-11-26T12:52:16+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>flXHR</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/26/flxhr/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-11-26T12:52:16+00:00</published><updated>2009-11-26T12:52:16+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/26/flxhr/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://flxhr.flensed.com/"&gt;flXHR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
I was looking for something like this recently, glad to see it exists. flXHR is a drop-in replacement for regular XMLHttpRequest which uses an invisible Flash shim to allow cross-domain calls to be made, taking advantage of the Flash crossdomain.xml security model.


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