Can we get a response from outside the domian in ajax

[SamithaFernando]

Hi all,
can we get a response outside the domain using ajax? Eg. http://www.example.com/webService?list=test . then that may snd xml or json string to us.
var url ="http://www.example.com/webService?list=test ";
var myAjax = new Ajax.Request(
url,
{

method: 'get',
parameters: 'user=abc',
onComplete: function(response) {
res = response.responseText;
............................
and i want to display this response in my web page. we can simply do this by adding code like this
Eg. $("resp").innerHTML = res;

but when ajax call fires it saying this is unsafe in IE nothing happens in FF too. any solution for this??

Thank you,
samitha fernando

[acoder]

Samitha, welcome to TSDN!

Use a web proxy, e.g. see this link.

[SamithaFernando]

thanx for the reply. Yeah thatz a good way to get a ajax response from outside the domain. :) But i would like to know can't we do this by just using java script + or may be iframes :)
Thanx

samitha

[acoder]

You could use JSON instead of HTML or XML. Another alternative is to use dynamic script tags.

Using iframes wouldn't work because you wouldn't be able to access the content of the iframe if it was from another domain.