Question

I get a jQuery AJAX response from localhost with

var ajaxsrc = $.ajax({type:"GET", url: "http://localhost:4540/get.aspx?i=<%=Request.QueryString["i"] %>" ,data:"",dataType: "html"}).responseText;
alert(ajaxsrc);

IE alerts the correct text but Chrome alerts empty strings. When I check with developer console I see that it connects to get.aspx and retrieves data, however cannot handle withing my code.

Any advices?

Answer 1

From the jQuery.ajax page:

Note that this usage – returning the result of the call into a variable – requires a synchronous (blocking) request! (async:false)

You need to have async: false in the settings object if you’re going to do that kind of assignment with .responseText.

You’re probably better off passing a success handler, though…