Make a Cross-Domain request for XML from a local file

Question

I am not sure if this is even possible. Basically I want to load a local html file on a client PC and have it make a request to a remote server. The data served up by the server

Answer 1

Regardless of payload type JSON or XML what you are doing is JSONP and the result is a javascript function call. So the response must be a valid javascript function call with XML data as input to that function.

Answer 2

Well, if you are having a problem with the cross domain policy, you might need to build some sort of proxy that will do the request for you. (Its pretty simple to make)

If you want to open a JavaScript file to make an Ajax request I'd use Dojo to parse the XML.

You have a nice example here: http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dojo/xhrGet.html

Hope it helps.