How do I load the contents of a text file into a javascript variable?

Question

I have a text file in the root of my web app http://localhost/foo.txt and I\'d like to load it into a variable in javascript.. in groovy I would do this:

Answer 1

here is how I did it in jquery:

jQuery.get('http://localhost/foo.txt', function(data) {
    alert(data);
});