HTTP GET request in JavaScript?

Browsers (and Dashcode) provide an XMLHttpRequest object which can be used to make HTTP requests from JavaScript: However, synchronous requests are discouraged and will generate a warning along the lines of: Note: Starting with Gecko 30.0 (Firefox 30.0 / Thunderbird 30.0 / SeaMonkey 2.27), synchronous requests on the main thread have been deprecated due to the negative … Read more