Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

same-origin policy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English

Syllables: same-o-rig-in pol-i-cy
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rule, in web browsers, that permits scripts contained in a first web page to access data in a second web page, but only if both web pages have the same origin (based on URI scheme, hostname, and port number), so as to prevent malicious scripts from accessing sensitive data through the Document Object Model.

Inflected Forms

same-origin policies (plural)

Synonyms

SOP

Questions

What does same-origin policy mean?: A rule, in web browsers, that permits scripts contained in a first web page to access data in a second web page, but only if both web pages have the same origin (based on URI scheme, hostname, and port number), so as to prevent malicious scripts from accessing sensitive data through the Document Object Model.

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