Question

I need to see if a file exist on another server. So if I called http://www.someotherserver.com/index.html if the page is there it returns true and if not it returns false. I gave this a try:

    $.ajax({
        type: 'HEAD',
        url: 'http://localhost/HTMLPage1.htm',
        success: function () {
        },
        error: function () {
            alert("Unable to connect to secure checkout.");
            return false;
        }
    });

But it returns an error every time. I was thinking maybe because of cross-domain scripting. Does anyone know how to make this work or have a method that does work?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Just set crossDomain to true in your code, like this:

 $.ajax({
        type: 'HEAD',
        url: 'http://localhost/HTMLPage1.htm',
        crossDomain: true,
        success: function () {
        },
        error: function () {
            alert("Unable to connect to secure checkout.");
            return false;
        }
    });