On w3schools.com(url) there is an example of how to do an AJAX call with plain Javascript. If you look at the example you will see the call is triggered by a button:
<button type="button" onclick="loadXMLDoc()">Change Content</button>
This is the function:
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","ajax_info.txt",true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
What I would like to do is get the URL of the outgoing AJAX call which is ajax_info.txt(url):
xmlhttp.open("GET","ajax_info.txt",true);
Im trying to put that URL in to an alert, so I tried calling the headers of the response using getAllResponseHeaders()
hoping that it will give me the Host
like so:
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
{
document.getElementById("myDiv").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
alert(xmlhttp.getAllResponseHeaders());
It does give me all the headers but not the Host. So my next move was trying to set the Host myself using setRequestHeader()
but then I realized the Header needs a Value which I had to send myself, so this will not work. What else can I try to get/fetch the outgoing AJAX URL in the alert?
Please note the code is just an example and I know that changing headers(in this case) is prohibited because of Access-Control-Allow-Origin.