Get HTML code using JavaScript with a URL
I am trying to get the source code of HTML by using an XMLHttpRequest with a URL. How can I do that? I am new to programming and I am not too sure how can I do it without jQuery.
I am trying to get the source code of HTML by using an XMLHttpRequest with a URL. How can I do that? I am new to programming and I am not too sure how can I do it without jQuery.
I did a bit more digging into the Postman code that was able to run successfully and got the correct answer from that. Here’s the code I used to correctly run the API and pass the information cross-domain.
No, JavaScript can not directly connect to MySQL. But you can mix JS with PHP to do so. JavaScript is a client-side language and your MySQL database is going to be running on a server
Is your website also on the oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com domain? or your trying to make a call to a domain and the same origin policy is blocking you? Unless you have permission to set header via CORS on the oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com domain you may want to look for another approach.
Update the create action as below: You are using respond_to method but anot specifying the format in which a new page is rendered. Hence, the error ActionController::UnknownFormat .
Add two headers Content-Type and Accept to be equal to application/json.
What you saw in Firefox was not the actual request; note that the HTTP method is OPTIONS, not POST. It was actually the ‘pre-flight’ request that the browser makes to determine whether a cross-domain AJAX request should be allowed: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ The Access-Control-Request-Headers header in the pre-flight request includes the list of headers in the actual … Read more
Your server is not returning a content-type, so Firefox assumes that since this is _XML_HttpRequest your response might be XML and tries to parse it. When that fails, it stops trying and reports that this wasn’t XML after all. Chrome likely does the same but doesn’t report anything. I suggest actually sending a Content-Type header … Read more
Close chrome (or chromium) and restart with the –disable-web-security argument. I just tested this and verified that I can access the contents of an iframe with src=”http://google.com” embedded in a page served from “localhost” (tested under chromium 5 / ubuntu). For me the exact command was: Note : Kill all chrome instances before running command The browser … Read more
Neither of the answers here helped me. The problem was: I was using the slim build of jQuery, which had some things removed, ajax being one of them. The solution: Just download the regular (compressed or not) version of jQuery here and include it in your project.