XMLHttpRequest to get HTTP response from remote host
javascript, xmlhttprequest
Solution
Your browser is preventing cross-site scripting. You have to use a relative path, otherwise most browsers will simply return an error or an empty responseText.
The following Stack Overflow post is probably also related to your problem:
- Empty responseText from XMLHttpRequest.
Problem
Why the following code Based on Mozilla example does not work? Tried with Firefox 3.5.7 & Chrome. ``` <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body> </body> <script> var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); req.open('GET', 'http://www.mozilla.org/', false); req.send(); if(req.status == 200) { alert(req.responseText); } </script> </html> ``` Please that the browser is pulling the html from local disk (file:///C:/Users/Maxim%20Veksler/Desktop/XMLHTTP.html) On Firefox it gives the following error: ``` uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Users/Maxim%20Veksler/Desktop/XMLHTTP.html :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 10" data: no] ``` What am I doing wrong? I want to submit a request to remote host and alert the result (later to added into a div).