[gears-users] Re: Google is not defined creating a httprequest

[riccardo]

Amit

Thanks for answering. My fault the path to gears_init.js was not
respective to the manifest.json file. But now it works fine and a
GearsHttpRequest object is created.

I tried to do read my navigation file as a string. What I get back is
an empty string:
<script type="text/javascript">
   var request = google.gears.factory.create('beta.httprequest');
   request.open('GET', '/highlights/en/navigation.xml');
   request.onreadystatechange = function() {
       if (request.readyState == 4) {
          updatePage(request.responseText);
       }
    };
   request.send();

   function updatePage(str){
      ...

   }
</script>

I am aware of the restriction that the GearsHttpRequest cannot access
the response as an XML-DOM object. But I expected at least a string.
Was that a wrong idea?

Thanks
Riccardo