Question

Included below is the code that I am trying to use to display the HTML contents of another page. I am unable to get the code to work and am receiving an error each time. What am I missing here?

$.ajax({
    url: 'http://www.msn.com',  
    type: 'GET',
    dataType : "text/html",
    success: function (result) {
        alert('success');
        alert(result);
    },
    error: function() { 
       alert('error');
}
});

Answer 1

You cannot do a cross-domain AJAX request (unless the servers are specifically set up for it).

The best you can do is call a PHP script on your server, which in turn gets the HTML from the other server and sends it back to your page.