Same Origin Policy and the Android WebView
First of all, let me say that all that follows is public knowledge and is somewhat described in the Android docs. However, I haven’t seen much discussion, so I thought it’s a good idea to write a blog post. ####Same Origin Policy When a page is loaded into a WebView to be displayed, all code in this page runs “in the context” of that page (its origin). The Same Origin Policy (SOP) is a mechanism that restricts javascript running in the context of one origin to access objects from another origin. »