How to process json response from ajax call

Question

My webservice returns a JSON object like following

[\"abc\",\"xyz\",\"option_3\"]

i.e. when I put this address in chrome browser http://l

Answer 1

Update

You edited the question; you can't use dataType: 'json' because of cross-domain issues that can only be overcome by either using a proxy on the same domain or via CORS.

When you use dataType: 'jsonp' you can't use async: false; this is because it doesn't really use XMLHttpRequest but uses the