You cannot perform AJAX calls outside of your own domain. This is a
security feature to help prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.
There is a caveat, however. You can use $.getJSON() to fetch JSON
objects from remote sites. The docs use a flickr photo stream as a
good example of this. It allows you to include Javascript (and only
javascript) from a remote domain.
On Feb 4, 11:55 am, "mcandrew....@gmail.com" <mcandrew....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> If I try to call $.ajax with a fully qualified url, nothing happens at
> all:
>
> $.ajax(
> {
> type: "GET",
> url: "http://www.google.com/";,
> dataType: "html",
> success: function(data)
> {
> alert(data);
> },
> error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus,
> errorThrown)
> {
> alert(textStatus + errorThrown);
> }
> });
>
> If I call it without the "http://"; the alert in the error function
> shows "errorundefined":
>
> $.ajax(
> {
> type: "GET",
> url: "www.google.com",
> dataType: "html",
> success: function(data)
> {
> alert(data);
> },
> error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus,
> errorThrown)
> {
> alert(textStatus + errorThrown);
> }
> });
>
> If I call it with the url encoded, I also get "errorundefined" from
> the alert in the error function:
>
> $.ajax(
> {
> type: "GET",
> url: "http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2F",
> dataType: "html",
> success: function(data)
> {
> alert(data);
> },
> error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus,
> errorThrown)
> {
> alert(textStatus + errorThrown);
> }
> });
>
> All of the examples I see show calling this function with a relative
> URL, was it not intended to go used to download content from other
> domains?
