You should be able to use the XmlHttpRequest.responseText property, it'll give you the server response as string...
--Klaus On 31 Mrz., 10:43, the_woodsman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your responses guys. > > James - I think I'm trying to do the opposite, my ajax call returns > XML, and I want to treat it like plain HTML - but I'll look at your > link and see if it helps, thanks! > > Klaus - the API exists already and is used by other client technology, > I don't have free reign to change it... and I shouldn't have to, > everything works fine when i send XML without the mime type! > I just need to ignore the XML mime type, and everything would be > sorted!!! > > On Mar 31, 6:30 am, Klaus Hartl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am wondering why the server would not serve html in the first place. > > > --Klaus > > > On 30 Mrz., 15:37, the_woodsman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > My ajax requests return xml, with the corresponding mime type. > > > > I'm using $.get, as so: > > > > $.get( > > > $(this).attr('href'), > > > function(data, textStatus) > > > { > > > > > > $('#requestArea').val(data); > > > }, > > > 'html' //type, correct? > > > ); > > > > $('#requestArea').val(data) sets a text area to say [object > > > XMLDocument] > > > > So it seems my setting the type to html does nothing! > > > > I've played around with this a bit, including using other ajax methods > > > apart from .get(), with the same results. > > > > Am I missing something here? > > > > Thanks in advance! > >
