XMLHttpRequest xml response woes with jQuery 1.4.1, how to force the request response to be processed as plain text?

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I'm just playing around with jQuery and trying something that ought be simple, but it just ain't working. ``` $(document).ready(function(){ $.ajax({ url : 'http://soiduplaan.tallinn.ee/', data : {a : 'p.routes', transport_id : 'tram', t : 'xml', l : 'ee'}, error : function(xhr, stat){ alert('error'); }, success : function(data){ alert('success'); alert(data); } }); }); ``` The snippet is in a test.js file and included in a test.html file which is opened in Firefox (3.6) like file:///C:/test.html and altough 'success' is shown the data is empty and through Firebug the response for XML displays: ``` X`ML Parsing Error: no element found Location: moz-nullprincipal:{5ac44e50-2cb6-45d1-9cfe-0b999850ecdb} Line Number 1, Column 1:` ``` Alternatively I tried that adding ``` dataType : "text" ``` has no effect, the result is still processed as xml (probably because the response has content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8). I'm able to see the response results through Firebug if I set ``` dataTyp…

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Are you executing this code from the same domain ? (http://soiduplaan.tallinn.ee)

Because you are not allowed to use the ajax calls to fetch data from other domains ... (unless using the JSONP or script datatypes ..)

When data is retrieved from remote servers (which is only possible using the script or jsonp data types), ...

Tha alternative would be to have jQuery request a local file which would receive the data server-side and serve them to the ajax request..

for example php: http_post_data asp: Microsoft.XMLHTTP

XMLHttpRequest xml response woes with jQuery 1.4.1, how to force the request response to be processed as plain text?

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