Why does my JSONP request give me Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < (less than)?

Question

Following is my xmlfile

applica.luminoustec.net/file.xml

I need to access with this ajax call from my local host, all about is cross domain

Answer 1

http://applica.luminoustec.net/file.xml is XML.

dataType: "jsonp", tells jQuery to parse it as JSONP.

XML is not JSONP. Thus, it errors.

Either:

1. Change the URL to one which returns JSONP or
2. Remove the dataType line and let jQuery detect it as XML (NB: This will probably require that you set up CORS support on the server).