Dear Chad, I appreciate your suggestion very much. Your program runs perfect. Do you know how to use javascript to read xml data from different site firefox? Larry suggests me to use proxy. I still do not know how to do it. Thank you very much for your help.
Best, David On Dec 9, 4:47 pm, Rainman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > > I am doing similar calls on my site and I found (with much help from > this community) that a very simple PHP script as a proxy solved my > problems. > > Here is my map:http://www.udfcd.org/FWP/LDAD/gmap.html > > If you click on the Archived ALERT tab and click Update Map with the > default options you will see it in action. > > I use the this, 'GDownloadUrl("xmlproxy.php?type=rainarchive&ME=" + ME > + "&DE=" + DE + "&YE=" + YE+ "&HE=" + HE, function(data)' instead of a > direct call to the XML file. I pass the date and time variable > information from the HTML form to the javascript function and let the > PHP script do the legwork for reading the XML file and storing it > locally. > > Here is the relevent part of the PHP script: > <?php > if ($_GET['type'] == "rainarchive") { > $url = "http://alert2.udfcd.org/cgi-bin/reportgen.new?TPT=tpt/ > xml_rain.tpt&CFG=lst/fslrain.lst&TIM=tim/xml_rain.tim&YE=" . $_GET > ['YE'] . "&ME=" . $_GET['ME'] . "&DE=" . $_GET['DE'] . "&HE=" . $_GET > ['HE'];} > > //fetch XML feed from posted url > $ch = curl_init(); > $timeout = 60; > $userAgent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; > $header[] = "Content-type: text/xml"; > > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header ); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent); > > $response = curl_exec($ch); > > if (curl_errno($ch)) { > $fl=fopen($logfile, "w"); > fwrite($fl, curl_error($ch) . " url: " . $url); //write contents > of error to log file > fclose($fl);} else { > > curl_close($ch); > echo $response;} > > ?> > > I'm a weekend programmer and I was able to get this working for me > with the help of this group. > > If others see a better way to do this I'm open to suggestions as well. > > Good luck! > Chad > > On Dec 8, 8:19 am, David Miao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dear larry and all, > > > I appreciate very much your valuable suggestions. Could you please > > give me more detail suggestions how to modify my code if using Json to > > call the xml data from the url "http://www.google.com/ig/api? > > weather=61801"? since I am not very familar with network stuff. With > > view source, you can see the code > > fromhttp://abe-research.illinois.edu/Faculty/grift/Research/EBI/xhr-reque.... > > I thank you again for your help. Have a good day! > > > Sincerely, > > > David > > > On Dec 8, 12:37 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > On Dec 7, 7:10 pm, David Miao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Dear Sir/Madam, > > > > > I am asking for help to solve the question of Firefox cross site > > > > domain. I am trying to develop a simple program to show weather info > > > > on my map. I modified the program from Mr. Mike Williams' tutorial. > > > > The program works very well for IE but not for Firefox. With IE, the > > > > program shows three marks and weather infowindow when clicking the > > > > markers. I guess it is the problem of Firefox cross-site. I spent days > > > > and can not get it done. Any comments and suggestions are welcome. > > > > > Link:http://abe-research.illinois.edu/Faculty/grift/Research/EBI/xhr-reque... > > > > I get the same error in IE6 and FF: > > > FF: > > > Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Access to restricted URI > > > denied" code: "1012" nsresult: "0x805303f4 (NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)" > > > location: "http://maps.google.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/139e/maps2.api/ > > > main.js Line: 235"] > > > > IE: > > > Line: 235 > > > Error: Permission denied > > > > due to this URL: > > > var url = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=61801";; > > > > You know what the problem is. There is only one way to solve the > > > problem with XmlHttpRequest, a proxy. There are other solutions if > > > you use JSON rather than XmlHttpRequest. > > > > -- Larry- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
