Access-Control-Allow-Origin error on same domain

Question

My page has been working for a while now, and all of a sudden its giving me this cross domain request error. The odd thing is I am making a relative request to the file so I do not see why I am getting this.

Error:

OPTIONS https://www.aliahealthcare.com/php/central.php?logout=true Origin https://aliahealthcare.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

send jquery-1.7.2.min.js:4 f.extend.ajax jquery-1.7.2.min.js:4 logout aliahealthcare.com/:841 picker aliahealthcare.com/:901 (anonymous function) aliahealthcare.com/:713 f.event.dispatch jquery-1.7.2.min.js:3 h.handle.i jquery-1.7.2.min.js:3

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://www.aliahealthcare.com/php/central.php?logout=true .

Origin https://aliahealthcare.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. aliahealthcare.com/:1

Code:

 function logout (){

      $.ajax({
           type: "GET",
           url: "/php/central.php",
                   data: { logout: 'true' },
                   success: function(msg) {
                     if(msg=='1'){ 

                     location.reload();

                    } 
                    else if(msg=='0') {
                        alert("Logout Failed! Please try again!") 
                    }
                  },
                  error:function(msg){
                    alert("Error"+msg);
                    }

         });
     }

Result when outputting result of ajax:

Object {readyState: 1, setRequestHeader: function, getAllResponseHeaders: function, getResponseHeader: function, overrideMimeType: function…} abort: function (a){a=a||"abort",p&&p.abort(a),w(0,a);return this} always: function (){i.done.apply(i,arguments).fail.apply(i,arguments);return this} complete: function (){if(c){var a=c.length;n(arguments),j?l=c.length:e&&e!==!0&&(k=a,o(e[0],e[1]))}return this} done: function (){if(c){var a=c.length;n(arguments),j?l=c.length:e&&e!==!0&&(k=a,o(e[0],e[1]))}return this} error: function (){if(c){var a=c.length;n(arguments),j?l=c.length:e&&e!==!0&&(k=a,o(e[0],e[1]))}return this} fail: function (){if(c){var a=c.length;n(arguments),j?l=c.length:e&&e!==!0&&(k=a,o(e[0],e[1]))}return this} getAllResponseHeaders: function (){return s===2?n:null} getResponseHeader: function (a){var c;if(s===2){if(!o){o={};while(c=bG.exec(n))o[c[1].toLowerCase()]=c[2]}c=o[a.toLowerCase()]}return c===b?null:c} isRejected: function (){return!!i} isResolved: function (){return!!i} overrideMimeType: function (a){s||(d.mimeType=a);return this} pipe: function (a,b,c){return f.Deferred(function(d){f.each({done:[a,"resolve"],fail:[b,"reject"],progress:[c,"notify"]},function(a,b){var c=b[0],e=b[1],g;f.isFunction(c)?i[a](function(){g=c.apply(this,arguments),g&&f.isFunction(g.promise)?g.promise().then(d.resolve,d.reject,d.notify):d[e+"With"](this===i?d:this,[g])}):i[a](d[e])})}).promise()} progress: function (){if(c){var a=c.length;n(arguments),j?l=c.length:e&&e!==!0&&(k=a,o(e[0],e[1]))}return this} promise: function (a){if(a==null)a=h;else for(var b in h)a[b]=h[b];return a} readyState: 0 responseText: "" setRequestHeader: function (a,b){if(!s){var c=a.toLowerCase();a=m[c]=m[c]||a,l[a]=b}return this} state: function (){return e} status: 0 statusCode: function (a){if(a){var b;if(s<2)for(b in a)j[b]=[j[b],a[b]];else b=a[v.status],v.then(b,b)}return this} statusText: "error" success: function (){if(c){var a=c.length;n(arguments),j?l=c.length:e&&e!==!0&&(k=a,o(e[0],e[1]))}return this} then: function (a,b,c){i.done(a).fail(b).progress(c);return this} __proto__: Object

Answer 1

The difference between the URLs is the "www.", and I think that's enough to trigger "cross-domain". You're right that it's strange for a relative request to result in a dissimilar URL; perhaps it's something to do with JQuery's ajax method. You may be able to quickly fix the issue by either entering in the full hostname manually, or determining it with window.location