Hi there!
I want to host my SCORM packages on an external server. But I have heard that cross-domain restrictions will prevent the SCORM being able to communicate with my LMS server.
Question:
Are moodle.mysite.com and files.mysite.com considered cross-domain? Or would my SCORM on files.XXXX be able to communicate correctly with my LMS on moodle.XXXX ?
If not, is there another way to do this (my servers are completely separate) ?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Justin,
Are moodle.mysite.com and files.mysite.com considered cross-domain?
Yes
Or would my SCORM on files.XXXX be able to communicate correctly with my LMS on moodle.XXXX ?
No, they must be hosted in the same origin which means, in the old days:
In the past, you were used to host the content in the same origin of the Moodle instance i.e run the content on the same "web server" under a virtual folder/alias or on another web server but exposed via a reverse proxy under the same origin above.
This is how in the past they solved this issue unless using "complex" SCORM Proxy solutions.
HTH,
Matteo
Thanks for the confirmation Matteo, unsuspected as much, but was hoping.
I stumbled upon the CORS specification. Have you ever tried this or seen it work ? I had never heard about it so I have some doubts...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing
Hi Justin,
CORS allows, under policy settings, the JavaScript running into an origin to connect to another origin e.g. JavaScript in Moodle code to consume a RSS feed.
SCORM Run Time Environment (RTE) requires the ability to search and consume the methods exposed by a JS object called API, exposed to the content by the LMS, here Moodle, in a parent window with respect to where the SCORM content is hosted.
Shortly, nothing that CORS could enable.
HTH,
Matteo
