Ajax: Load XML from different domain?

Question

I have signed up(paid) for Google site search. They have me a url of a sort of web service where I can send a query to it, it searches my site, and it returns XML of the sea

Answer 1

You can't load external files with AJAX. However, you can set up a file on your own server that makes the content available on your server. For instance in PHP, you could write a file googlexml.php:

<?php
@readfile("http://www.google.com/cse?cx=MY_UNIQUE_KEY&client=googlecsbe&output=xml_no_dtd&q=query+terms");
?>

And then you could access that with AJAX. I'm not sure if Google's terms of use will let you do that, but if they do, then this is an option.

Answer 2

For those coming across this now, the AJAX Search API may be what you want: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/

EDIT: Actually, upon further review, that may not hook in with the site search...

Answer 3

Does google not offer the ability to forward a DNS address to the IP of your service, folding it into your domain? This way you can do in AJAX

googleAlias.mydomain.com

Google should support this, but I don't know for sure. I imagine they would in the same way they do with GMail and external-domain mail.

Removes your cross-domain javascript issues

edit I expanded below and another user helpfully pointed out this should work (thanks Stobor)

Well, to get my company mail into GMail, if I recall, I needed to change the MX record on my DNS to point to a google IP. You may be able, if google supports it, to add an A record to your domain so an AJAX request to foo.yourdomain.com is the same as search.google.com or whatever. Google needs to recognize requests from your hostname in the A record and say "Oh yes, that's me, on my client's behalf"