You could look up the new cross domain request stuff, but using JSONP might
be easier. It's not parsing the XML as JSON.
The idea of JSONP is that you make a cross domain request, and provide a
callback function. The server spits out JSON, and wraps it in the callback
function.
my_callback({ "a":"stuff", "b":"otherstuff"});
Request.JSONP makes the callback stuff real easy for you. As well, this
request is put inside a script element, so it can execute as JavaScript. To
get your XML request to work, it would have to wrap the XML with the
callback method that Request.JSONP is sending, and escape all the XML to fit
inside a single string.
my_callback('<things><thing id="one">a thing</thing><thing id="two">it\'s
another thing</thing></things>');
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Nacho G <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to get data from a remote XML file but I'm getting a
> preflight request with REQUEST because I'm requesting a cross-domain
> XMLHttpRequest.
>
> With Request.JSONP I don't have that problem and I get the data from
> the remote XML but the problem is that mootools parse the result and
> it gives an error as the result is XML not JSON.
>
> how can I make a regular Request avoiding the preflight request? or
> how can I stop JSONP from parsing the result?
>
> thanks
