Disabling same-origin policy in Safari

Question

For development purposes, I need to disable the same-origin policy in Safari (on Windows) on my machine.

In Chrome, this can be done by launching with the flag --disable-web-security. Is there an equivalent flag or hidden setting in Safari?

Answer 1

There is an option to disable cross-origin restrictions in Safari 9, different from local file restrictions as mentioned above.

Answer 2

goto,

Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced

then at the bottom tick Show Develop Menu in menu bar

then in the Develop Menu tick Disable Cross-Origin Restrictions

Answer 3

If you want to disable the same-origin policy on Safari (I have 9.1.1), then you only need to enable the developer menu, and select "Disable Cross-Origin Restrictions" from the develop menu.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, there is no equivalent for Safari and the argument --disable-web-security doesn't work with Safari.

If you have access to the server side application, you can modify the https response headers to allow access. Mainly the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. Modifying it will allow Safari to access the resource. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS#Access-Control-Allow-Origin for more information on the response headers that will help.

Answer 5

Later versions of Safari allow you to Disable Cross-Origin Restrictions. Just enable the developer menu from Preferences >> Advanced, and select "Disable Cross-Origin Restrictions" from the develop menu.

If you want local only, then you only need to enable the developer menu, and select "Disable local file restrictions" from the develop menu.