By the way, I've tried this both with a static url, as shown in my example, and a url with a response string (which I eventually will need). Neither worked. Hopefully someone can shed some light on what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks! On Jun 25, 8:43 pm, jhm <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having an issue with the $.get() method. When I request a file > local to my site (with a relative path), everything works fine. When I > request the same file with a full URL, the $.get() isn't successful. I > don't know if its a security issue (requesting data from a 3rd party > site) or maybe a timing issue, or maybe something else. > > Here's the essence of the call when it fails: > > $.get('http://files.myurl.com/myxml.xml', function(data) { > alert('got it'); > } > > If I call it with just the 'myxml.xml' as the path, it works fine. > > Thanks!

