> How did you handle getting your browser to talk to a server running on a different port? (Cross-origin requests) Having run such things on entirely different

> How did you handle getting your browser to talk to a server running on a different port? (Cross-origin requests) Having run such things on entirely different servers, never mind localhost ports, what I needed to do was set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin http header in the rails controller (same principle applies to other frameworks). One simple guide is here: http://madhukaudantha.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/access-control-allow-origin-in-rails.html http://madhukaudantha.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/access-control-... Slightly ruined by that dreadful blogger interface, but there you go.