JSONP To Acquire JSON From HTTPS Protocol with JQuery

Question

I\'m trying to acquire a JSON which is being sent from an https secure site,

The client was hoping not to use any Server-side languages (the whole thing in Javascript)

Answer 1

you can use getJSON for example

$.getJSON('ajax/test.json', function(data) {
  $('.result').html('<p>' + data.foo + '</p>'
    + '<p>' + data.baz[1] + '</p>');
});

check complete getJSON documentation http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getJSON/

EDIT

I was wrong... using Jquery.ajax will cause cross-browser issue but not with Jquery.getJSON

http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.2/Ajax#Cross-Domain_getJSON_.28using_JSONP.29

Here is an example of cross-domain get JSON

EDIT

Firefox has a problem with HTTPS, as i know it will be fixed if you send your request like this

$.getJSON('ajax/test.json',{}, function(data) {
  $('.result').html('<p>' + data.foo + '</p>'
    + '<p>' + data.baz[1] + '</p>');
});

Source: AJAX https POST requests using jquery fail in Firefox

Hope this helps