ajax status = 0

Question

i'm trying to get information from a remote server on my local machine. readyState has no problem, i.e. ==4. however, status is always 0(instead of 200) when I hit the button, it returns nothing.

here is the code,:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function loadXMLDoc()
{
var xmlhttp;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
  {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
    {
    document.getElementById("myDiv").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
    }
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET",'http://www.spartanbook.com/textbooks_xml.asp?control=campus&campus=45&term=80',true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<div id="myDiv"><h2>Let AJAX change this text</h2></div>
<button type="button" onclick="loadXMLDoc()">Change Content</button>

</body>
</html>

It's basically from w3shcools. simply replaced the url. the url I'm using is working when I paste it into address bar of my browser.

Any idea? Thanks!!

It doesn't work, because [W3Schools is bad](http://w3fools.com/). — McKayla, Jun 07 '11 at 19:33

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '11 at 19:42

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Check that you are not making a cross domain request.

If for example you are not serving this page from http://www.spartanbook.com then the expected result would be access denied, which oddly enough gives a readyState of 4, but a status of 0.

If you need to make a cross domain request, then you need to use a proxy.

answered Jun 07 '11 at 19:42

Gavin

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Gavin, I CAN access the content by browser, but can't do it from code. so I guess it won't relate to domain. – cheng Jun 07 '11 at 19:55
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@user788072: That's exactly the point-- cross-domain policy applies to JavaScript asynchronous requests in JavaScript code. Of course you can access it in your browser-- your browser can access any domain! – Platinum Azure Jun 07 '11 at 19:58
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+1 to offset the possible ill-informed downvote, until whoever downvoted comes out and explains why and there's actually a good reason. – Platinum Azure Jun 07 '11 at 19:59
Hi Cheng. You need to pass your request through a local proxy. Please take a look at this link as an example. [link](http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/04/cross-domain-ajax-querying-with-jquery.html) – Gavin Jun 07 '11 at 20:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

Like Gavin says, it seems your problem is that you're making a cross domain request, which is blocked by most browsers due to security reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy

I suggest you move the code from your local computer to a place which satisfies the "Same Origin Policy", in your case that is somewhere on www.spartanbook.com.

However, there is a workaround for the problem, and that is to use JSONP. That will allow you to fetch JSON data from a program on another domain.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 07 '11 at 19:46

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This error code indicates that the response was empty. Seems like a firewall issue

answered Jun 07 '11 at 19:46

Hasan Fahim

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firewall from my side or their side? – cheng Jun 07 '11 at 19:57

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