How do I call a web service from javascript

Question

Say I have a web service http://www.example.com/webservice.pl?q=google which returns text \"google.com\". I need to call this web service (http://www.example.com/webservice.

Answer 1

Take a look at one of the many javascript libraries out there. I'd recommend jQuery, personally. Aside from all the fancy UI stuff they can do, it has really good cross-browser AJAX libraries.

$.get(
    "http://xyz.com/webservice.pl",
    { q : "google" },
    function(data) {
        alert(data);  // "google.com"
    }
);