as an alternative you can use flXHR http://flxhr.flensed.com/ but I don't know if the mootools plugin works on 1.3
-- ----------- Tafuni Vito [email protected] --------------------------------------------- "Verba volant, scripta manent... data corrupted" 2010/11/8 Sean McArthur <[email protected]> > 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 > > >
