T.J.,
Thanks for the rapid response!
In this case, I'm just requesting a static, plain-text file. As such,
it contains no headers as an HTML response would. Additionally, the
text in the response is never displayed by the browser; it's only
parsed into an array of JSON objects. Since this is a static file,
should I just manually add a header to the file? If so, do you know
the syntax for the header?
Thanks again!
On Apr 13, 9:46 am, "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com> wrote:
> Hey Mikey,
>
> I think the issue isn't the request headers, but rather the response
> headers. Make sure your server is sending back the correct content
> type. Firefox will take the server's word for it in terms of what is
> coming back (HTML, XML, JSON, etc.),. For what you're doing, you
> probably want the server to be sending back the type "text/plain".
> How you do that depends on what kind of server software you're using.
>
> HTH,
> --
> T.J. Crowder
> tj / crowder software / com
> Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available
>
> On Apr 13, 4:33 pm, MikeyLikesIt <etov...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Howdy!
>
> > I'm attempting to use the Ajax.Request object to grab a text file for
> > parsing. In this context, the file is a *.properties file that
> > contains application constants that are parsed into properties and
> > associated values.
>
> > It works great, except for one, small problem with Mozilla. Whenever
> > the file is read, Mozilla generates a "not well formed" error, because
> > it is expecting a well-formed HTML response. This is probably working
> > as intended, but is there a setting in the Ajax.Request object that
> > will allow the browser to expect a plain-text response and not a well-
> > formed HTML response? I've played around with the requestHeaders
> > option a bit, but that hasn't helped, unless I'm not getting it (which
> > is quite possible).
>
> > A snippet from my object is below, for reference. Thanks in advance
> > for the help!
>
> > =================================================================
>
> > , getResponse: function() {
>
> > var reader = this;
> > new Ajax.Request(
> > reader.FILE_PATH
> > , {
> > method: 'get'
> > , onSuccess: function(transport) {
> > reader.parseResponse(transport,
> > reader.properties); }
> > , onFailure: function() { alert('There was
> > an error processing
> > this request.'); }
> > });
> > }
>
> > , parseResponse: function(transport, propertiesArray) {
>
> > var rawResponse = transport.responseText.split('\n');
> > var reader = this;
>
> > for(var i = 0; i < rawResponse.length; i++) {
> > var line = rawResponse[i];
> > var index = line.indexOf('=');
> > if(index > -1) {
> > var property = {
> > name: line.substring(0, index)
> > , value: line.substring(index + 1,
> > line.length)
> > };
> > propertiesArray.push(property);
> > }
> > }
> > }
>
> > =================================================================
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