Do you have control over the XML resource? I assume it's coming from some back-end script that is generating it. If not, you could ask the engineers that do you have access to allow passing a "callback" GET parameter.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Nacho G <[email protected]> wrote: > Excuse my ignorance but I'm not sure how to do that and I can't find > more information about the jsonp callback > Could you give a little example ? > > > thanks a lot > > > > > On Nov 8, 6:31 pm, Sean McArthur <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
