Question

My friend has a search engine that he wants to have a widget access that can be put on other web pages. If I send a request to the search engine, it returns an XML file. The request would look something like this:
http://www.site.com/page.php?keyword=this+is+a+sample&page=1&num_days=3&source_id=site2.com&source_name=site2&source_url=sampleurl.php

I understand how to access this by using Javascript. However, I know that you can’t do a cross-domain request. I would have to have it load a new page at the search engines’s site and not in the window at the the site they were located at….right? Any ideas or insight are greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Here is a good explanation too:

What is JSONP all about?

EDIT:

jsonpString

Override the callback function name in
a jsonp request. This value will be
used instead of callback in the
callback=? part of the query string
in the url. So {jsonp:'onJsonPLoad'}
would result in ‘onJsonPLoad=?’ passed
to the server.

 

jsonpCallbackString

Specify the callback function name for
a jsonp request. This value will be
used instead of the random name
automatically generated by jQuery. It
is preferable to let jQuery generate a
unique name as it’ll make it easier to
manage the requests and provide
callbacks and error handling. You may
want to specify the callback when you
want to enable better browser caching
of GET requests.

taken from:
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/