Loading cross-domain endpoint with AJAX

Question

I\'m trying to load a cross-domain HTML page using AJAX but unless the dataType is \"jsonp\" I can\'t get a response. However using jsonp the browser is expecting a script m

Answer 1

To get the data form external site by passing using a local proxy as suggested by jherax you can create a php page that fetches the content for you from respective external url and than send a get request to that php page.

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open('GET', 'http://localhost/get_url_content.php',false);
if(req.status == 200) {
   alert(req.responseText);
}

as a php proxy you can use https://github.com/cowboy/php-simple-proxy