Thank you. That explains it very well, and kind of what I expected.
On Jun 26, 12:13 pm, Zbyszek Matuszewski
<zbyszek.matuszew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Try to debug your application with Firebug extension for Firefox.
>
> You should probably get "uncaught exception: Access to restricted URI
> denied" error when trying to access URL that is on other server than
> the one script is working on (if it's not local file).
>
> If that is the case it's security issue - you should receive files
> from the same server as the script works from. Accessing other server
> is cross site reference and AJAX doesn't allow cross site references.
>
> There can be at least 3 solutions:
> - you may use wrong address of actual site (for example scripts starts
> from some.server.com when there iswww.some.server.comdomain), so you
> should repair this (use relative URLs or make your server side
> generate actual domain and put into script or make your client side
> javascript get domain name from the actual URI)
> - you may use some other server, so to do that you should write server
> side code (for example with use of sockets in PHP) that will connect,
> get XML and send it to your script (will work as a proxy, so the AJAX
> call will be within same domain)
> - you may try to make an IFRAME dynamically (hidden one) that will
> load the data and then take the data from that IFRAME (very unclean
> solution, but it should work, there are some well known scripts that
> use similar approach to make an AJAX file uploader).
>
> On 26 Cze, 20:19,jhm<jmay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I posted this late last night, but got no responses. I thought maybe
> > it scrolled off before anyone had a chance to see it, so I'm posting
> > again. Sorry if this is bad form, I'm new to these groups...
>
> > I'm having an issue with the $.get() method. When I request a file
> > local to my site (with a relative path), everything works fine. When I
> > request the same file with a full URL, the $.get() isn't successful. I
> > don't know if its a security issue (requesting data from a 3rd party
> > site) or maybe a timing issue, or maybe something else.
>
> > Here's the essence of the call when it fails:
>
> > $.get('http://files.myurl.com/myxml.xml', function
> > (data) {
> > alert('got it');
> > }
>
> > If I call it with just the 'myxml.xml' as the path, it works fine.
>
> > Thanks!
