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AJAX cross domain call

rated 0 times [ 62] [ 1] / answers: 1 / hits: 145032 / 15 Years ago, thu, april 1, 2010, 12:00:00

I know about AJAX cross-domain policy.
So I can't just call http://www.google.com over a ajax HTTP request and display
the results somewhere on my site.

I tried it with dataType jsonp, that actually would work, but I get a syntax error (obviously because the received data is not JSON formated)

Is there any other possiblity to receive/display data from a foreign domain?
iFrames follow the same policy?

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answered 15 Years ago lara · Accepted Answer

The only (easy) way to get cross-domain data using AJAX is to use a server side language as the proxy as Andy E noted. Here's a small sample how to implement that using jQuery:

The jQuery part:

$.ajax({

    url: 'proxy.php',

    type: 'POST',

    data: {

        address: 'http://www.google.com'

    },

    success: function(response) {

        // response now contains full HTML of google.com

    }

});

And the PHP (proxy.php):

echo file_get_contents($_POST['address']);

Simple as that. Just be aware of what you can or cannot do with the scraped data.