I am trying to simulate a cross origin site. Meaning I shouldn't be able to make ajax request from site A to site B since the browser will not naturally allow me to do so because of their cross-origin policy.
What are the tools I can use in this regard? Or are there any hacks?
What I've tried so far: I've opened a visual studio solution. It has two asp.net web form projects. One web project (say A) simply hosts a form with a file input control and a submit button. The other project B has a simple aspx page, which contains an iframe which loads site A inside of it.
I ran project B, and, in the browser console window, I did something like this:
var ifr = document.getElementById('myiframe');
console.log(ifr.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML);
The console window displays the markup of site A's page which is loaded in the client's iframe.
Clearly I've failed. But is there I way I can do it on one machine.
Well, a bit of digging shows that you can achieve this feat is by modifying your hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) as mentioned in the post below:
How do i map http://localhost:8080 to http://mysites in iis7?