local AJAX-call to remote site works in Safari but not in other browsers

Question

I am maintaining a website that uses Javascript. The script uses jQuery and loads some content from the server at which the site is normally hosted.

Just for conveni

Answer 1

Due to the same origin policy you aren't normally able to request resources from a different domain. Try adding crossDomain: true to your AJAX request since you are trying to make a request to a different domain.

$.ajax({
    url: 'http://my.domain.tld/cgi-bin/myPerlScript.pl',
    crossDomain: true,
    data: "lastID=" + lastID
       + '&qkz=' + Math.random(),
       dataType: "json",
       success: JSONreceive,
       error: JSONerror
});