Right, a dynamic <script> element is the only browser-based way around the cross-domain restriction. You can load a script from any domain, but you can't use that ability to read an HTML page.
So for your purposes it has to be something you run on your server. I would suggest not proxying the entire page from the other site. Instead, write code on your server that looks at the HTML page and creates a small JSON object with the specific info you need. Then have your JavaScript code do a $.getJSON() on that object. If you don't need real-time status of this target page, you can fetch it periodically from your server and store the latest JSON object. Or you can fetch it every time. -Mike On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Hundredth Monkey < stephan.a...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > thnx for reply, > yes i' ve found proxy solutions before. i think its ugly because it > will cost my traffic. all i want to do is to check a external page for > a backlink. but i understand... u mean my browser tries to convert to > javascript object... > hmmm , seems theres realy no way to load cross domain text via ajax. :O > ( > > On 23 Sep., 18:04, Michael Geary <m...@mg.to> wrote: > > It can't be done. > > > > Cross-domain JSON is actually JSONP, which uses a dynamic <script> > element. > > > > You can load a <script> element from any domain; that's why JSONP works. > > > > If you can't get the other domain to give you JavaScript code such as > JSONP, > > then your only other option is to use a proxy on your server, so your > server > > fetches the HTML code from the other domain. Then your JavaScript code > can > > load that HTML with no problem. > > > > You can get proxy server code in a number of languages, such as this one > in > > PHP: > > > > http://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/howto-proxy.html#phpproxy > > > > http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2007/05/31/php-proxy-script-f... > > > > Search for: > > > > {yourlanguage} cross-domain proxy > > > > to find others. > > > > -Mike > > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Hundredth Monkey < > > > > stephan.a...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > hi, > > > since a few days i try to load external html content from another > > > domain. obviosly it is hard to access cross domain content wit > > > javascript ajax methodes. first i' ve tried iframes but access denied. > > > after that I' ve tried $.ajax but all request returned zero byte data > > > from server. > > > here is a way that seems to work but raise an error while processing > > > data from text to json object > > > > > $.getJSON("http://example.com?jsoncallback= > ?",null, > > > function(data){ > > > alert(data); > > > }); > > > > > i can see the server response in firebug and it requests the html > > > data. but as i sayd i raise an error while converting to json. any > > > chance to get raw data before jquery konversion? or maybe any other way > > > (s) to request html data in text format from cross domain? > > > > > thanks in advance! >
