We can exchange strings between our express server and a client website (even cross domain) with this code (works perfectly) :
app.js:
var express = require("express");
var app = express();
var fs=require('fs');
var stringforfirefox = 'hi buddy!'
app.get('/getJSONPResponse', function(req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'application/javascript'});
res.end("__parseJSONPResponse(" + JSON.stringify( stringforfirefox) + ");");
});
app.listen(8001)
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script>
function __parseJSONPResponse(data) { alert(data); }
document.onkeypress = function keypressed(e){
if (e.keyCode == 112) {
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = 'http://localhost:8001/getJSONPResponse';
document.body.appendChild(script); // triggers a GET request ??????
}
}
</script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
We use document.createElement() and document.body.appendChild() to trigger a Get request as the highest voted answer here suggested. Our question: is it fine to create a new Element with evey request, because we plan to make a lot of requests with this. Could that cause any problems. Or should we clear such an Element after we received the response?
