Your call never went to their server, though. The browser does that on its own, directly. just be glad its gone...
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Otis Rothenberger <osrot...@chemagic.com> wrote: > Sorry Bob, > > After almost a month the problem is now gone. This has been a Post hoc > ergo propter hoc confusion. This AJAX routine broke after a number of > changes. My initial target was that it was the result of a SAN controller > emergency that my provider had to deal with for a block of users. We were > down for half a day. I talked to them after the fix, and they insisted that > my problem just had to be a cross domain browser issue - not server issue. > Now I’m thinking that there was a problem that was subsequently fixed. I > have to write to them. They’re probably not going to believe it, and I > don’t understand it either. Why would a page server create a problem with a > client side AJAX call to PubChem? But here’s a fact. It was not broken at > ISU - just CheMagic. > > Anyway, the browsers I track seem to be happy with the PubChem routine > again. > > Otis > > -- > Otis Rothenberger > o...@chemagic.com > http://chemagic.com > > On Aug 31, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Otis Rothenberger <osrot...@chemagic.com> > wrote: > > Bob, > > I wanted to do this directly (bypass Jmol) because I don’t want to use the > JSmol window. I’ve been using a JQuery AJAX call to do this, but this > started to fail recently. After doing some research, I saw that this was a > common problems because of browser problems. There are a number of > solutions, including a new browser standard - all convoluted as heck in my > opinion. > > Am I missing something here? In order to get that PubChem sdf directly > into a JavaScript variable, I need to use AJAX. Is this point correct? > > There’s another possibility: JQuery has an app library for AJAX that > supposedly handles this problem $.ajax. Recently, I started > using JSmol.min.nojq. Is it possible that this is the origin of my problem > - i.e. Jmol JQuery uses the AJAX app? > > I guess one solution would be to include a faceless Jmol applet to do this > dirty work for me. Is the faceless applet still an option? > > Otis > > -- > Otis Rothenberger > o...@chemagic.com > http://chemagic.com > > On Aug 31, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Robert Hanson <hans...@stolaf.edu> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Otis Rothenberger <osrot...@chemagic.com> > wrote: > >> Bob, >> >> Since the direct load of a model from PubChem works, PubChem must be >> allowing this with a proper Access-Control-Allow-Origin setting. I >> understand that. >> >> On the JSmol client side, you still have to deal with the cross-origin >> AJAX problem to complete the load. Am I correct on this point? >> >> > > >> >> If so, how are you dealing with this AJAX problem? >> >> > nothing to do, since they use Access-Control-Allow-Origin * > > > > >> My problem is that I need the 2d sdf for the appended data, not the >> coordinates. I was getting this with regular AJAX via direct access, but >> this has changed in browsers recently because of tightening of the cross >> origin policy. Currently, I'm using my server as a proxy, but PubChem help >> techs say they really do not like the proxy approach. >> >> > I don't know what the problem should be. Pretty sure if you use > > > data = Jmol.evaluateVar(jmolApplet0, "load(':caffeine')") > > > you get it. Right? > > > > >> Otis >> >> -- >> Otis Rothenberger >> o...@chemagic.com >> http://chemagic.com >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Jmol-users mailing list >> Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users >> > > > > -- > Robert M. 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Hanson Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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