What is Crossdomain.xml file ? Crossdomain.xml file is an example of policy file which sets rules for apps using “same origin” security model and accessing data from different location. Let us begin into the post Today when I am checking my Emails I saw one HTTP 404 Error email where the user is trying to request for crossdomain.xml file. So I thought that I can make a post on this file as a topic as many bloggers who are not programmers do not know about this particular request. Crossdomain.xml File Work Flow : A crossdomain.xml file is located at root of your domain. It is a policy file which uses “same origin” security model which is implemented in most of the browsers. In HTML you can access any image directly using the link of the image from any domain but for others like Javascript and Flash this policy prevents from getting or setting the property of file. But for many applications Read more

