Question

I want to access a website and get the anchor tags from it using an “ajax call” as follows:

$.ajax({
    url: 'https://www.facebook.com/',
    type: 'GET',
    success: function(res) {
        var headline = $(res.responseText).find('a').text();
        alert(headline);
    }
});

But i get headline as blank.
However i try the same code with a “http” website, it works fine.

Answer 1

It’s because https is something different than http, and Facebook just like many other websites uses cookies for authenticating. You have to first authenticate in https://facebook.com and then you can get data back.