Can I make an XMLHttpRequest to another domain?

Question

Is there a way to use XMLHttpRequest in combination with other domains?

I would like to parse some xml from Google without having to use a server so it is minimalistical

Answer 1

You cannot do cross domain request,e.g. from example1.com to example2.com through XMLHttpRequest or jQuery(which is a wrapper of XMLHttpRequest) due to security issue in client side(browser). This can be effectively implemented in modern browser supporting HTML5 through CORS(cross origin resource sharing, which cannot be available in every client browser. So, the solution is to insert script tag in example1.com of example2.com, and this solution is known as JSON-P(JSON with padding), the name could be misleading as the data can be in any format served by the server(example2.com). Its implementation code is given in this link http://newtechinfo.net/jsonp-for-cross-domain-ajax/