Testing Widgets That Use AJAX

I have an Opera widget that makes AJAX calls, but it doesn't seem to be able to issue calls against any server that's on our intranet, including localhost.

If I load the code in the browser by accessing index.html served up by Apache on localhost, everything works fine, but as soon as I load the same code as a widget, any AJAX calls to localhost throw a security violation error message.

At present, I don't have a security section in config.xml, but I've tried adding ...

<security>
<access>
<host>localhost</host>
</access>
</security>

... but that seems to make no difference.

If I change the URL for the AJAX call to point to an external server, it works as a widget but (obviously) not in the browser when loaded from localhost.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions please?

Current shipping versions of Opera do not permit access to localhost, so for now your are out of luck. We may however change this restriction in a future release of Opera.

I can understand blocking localhost for security reasons, but we don't even seem to be able to access anything on the local network (10.x.x.x), which would have been a suitable workaround.

This is the first AJAX call issued, so we're not falling foul of the intranet vs. internet restriction.

I have the similar situation.

var http = new XMLHttpRequest();
http.open("POST", "http://localhost:8010/Schematics", true);
...
http.send( SoapXml ); // Here Security violation.

I hasve *.svg file contains Javascript which needs to send SOAP to local SOAP server when user clicks.

At FireFox, I can do by

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalBrowserRead");

What can I do at Opera ?