Using Ext.Ajax.request for a file on another website

[ZachG]

I want to retrieve some data from another site and use it locally, but when I specify the url parameter of Ext.Ajax.request, the request is never issued.

Ext.Ajax.request({
     url:"https://twitter.com/goodies/list_of_lists?screen_name=zgardnerallofe",
     callback:function(inOptions, inSuccess, inResponse) {
          debugger;
     }
});

When I look at firebug, it looks like the request was never issued. Is there some other variable that I need to turn on or something, or was this done by design?

The easy way to get around it was to have it load from a local PHP file which did a file_get_contents of the URL, but this seems like unnecessary overhead when JS could do it directly.

[mitchellsimoens]

It's just that loading something from another domain has more coding. You have to use a proxy like ScriptTagProxy

[Mike Robinson]

Browsers generally will not load material from more than one site at a time. (This is an erstwhile "security" feature, of dubious merit IMHO.) But you can easily arrange for a server to obtain the material by those means, and "relay" it to the client.

[Swat]

Hi, I want to make http ajax request to other server, url works fine inany browser and returns status as "400" with output. But if I make ajax request to the same gives me communication failure message and in firebug the request status shows as "404" bad request. has anyone come across such situation and got the solution? please do let me know.
thanks.

[evant]

Do a google search for cross domain policy.

[Swat]

Thanks for reply. I know about cross domain policy. But here question is not about the policies. I want to display the results by making ajax calls to other server without any server side code and of course without any policy file.

[evant]

That's the point. If you read the stuff about cross domain policy, you would know it's not possible, it's a security restriction imposed by the browser.

[Swat]

Hi, Actually I was going through similar posts and found this http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17691
I have not tried the example.
Thanks

[evant]

Yes, but like the ScriptTagProxy it requires the data from the server to wrapped in a JS method that can be executed. Unless Twitter happens to have an API that sends data in that format, you can't do it.

[Swat]

hmmm...