Ajax

[watagal]

Greetings,I can get the Ajax test page (see my previous post) to work in Internet Explorer v6, but it fails in FireFox107. I've traced it down to my JS "getAjaxData()" function @ "oAjax.open("GET",dataSource);". I get the following error in the js console: "Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open".

function getAjaxData(dataSource,divId) {	if (oAjax) {  oAjax.open("GET",dataSource);    oAjax.onreadystatechange = function()  { 	 if (oAjax.readyState == 4 && oAjax.status == 200)	document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML = oAjax.responseText;  }  oAjax.send(null);	}}	// getAjaxData()

"oAjax" is my XMLHttpRequest object. Can anyone point me in the right direction?TIA, watagal

[aspnetguy]

This is the Acceptted Answer to the same problem on experts-exchange.com

Mozilla requires UniversalBrowserRead to use the XMLHttpRequest.open("Some Host") (This ones for you Cd&: http://www.mozilla.org/xmlextras/).  It's a security thing.  If you need to post data, why not consider creating a form with the data you want and using the javascript MyForm.Submit()?

hmm that link seems to be expired hang on...Ahhh this post should answer your questionhttp://www.forum4designers.com/message25416.html

[watagal]

Ahhh this post should answer your questionhttp://www.forum4designers.com/message25416.html

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Thanks, I got it to work now in FF107 using a local path (file://D:/...).This signature stuff from Mozilla adds another level of complexity, I'm sure it is all for good. Oh well...Thanks again,wg

[watagal]

For those who may be interested -- concerning the XMLHttpRequest.open() method, I found on Mozilla:Ajax:Getting Started the following:

The second parameter is the URL of the page you're requesting. As a security feature, you cannot call pages on 3rd-party domains. Be sure to use the exact domain name on all of your pages or you will get a 'permission denied' error when you call open(). A common pitfall is accessing your site by domain.tld, but attempting to call pages with www.domain.tld.

I assume since I won't be calling 3rd party sites for data retrieval, I can use relative URLs (../code/php/something.php) in my XMLHttpRequestObject.open(). If this a wrong assumption, please let know - i'm still a newbie at this. Relative seems to work in IE6 and FF107.wg