Question

I’m new to jQuery and would like to parse an xml document.
So far, I’ve been doing:

$.ajax({
        url: xmlUrl,
        type: 'GET',
        dataType: 'xml',
        crossDomain: true,
        error: function(){                          
        alert('Error loading XML document'); 
        }, 
        success: function(xml) {
       }
});

However, I always get the error message in ie8.

Here is the xmlUrl address which I want to parse.

http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=MyUrl

With really no luck. Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

I’m afraid IE 8 does not support Crss Origin requests, hence does not allow the cross-domain request (unless you do not setup the browser itself).

As the service you are trying to use does not use any client’s data, you can setup a proxy – simple PHP script, that retrieves the url and output (via curl or file_get_contents if allow_url_fopen is enabled), and use ajax without the crossdomain.