Question

Something pretty peculiar is happening with a simple JS GET client. Here’s the code using JQuery:

<h3 onclick="$.ajax({
 url: 'http://147.102.82.124/',
 type: 'GET',                            
 error: function() { alert('FAILURE'); },
 success: function() {alert('SUCCESS')}
});">Click me</h3>

The method fires up a ‘FAILURE’ message unless the url is set to localhost. At the same time, the remote server replies with a 200 status code ( I checked using the web console of Firefox).

[15:06:59.135] GET http://147.102.82.124/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 9ms]

And ideas?

Answer 1

As a security measure cross origin requests are not allowed, see CORS