jquery ajax get responsetext from http url

Question

Neither:

var response = $.ajax({
    type: "GET",   
    url: "http://www.google.de",   
    async: false,
    success : function() {
        alert (this);
    }
});

Nor:

var response2 = $.get("http://www.google.de", function(data) {
    alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
});

give me an object. How do I get access to the responseText?

Answer 1

You simply must rewrite it like that:

var response = '';
$.ajax({ type: "GET",   
         url: "http://www.google.de",   
         async: false,
         success : function(text)
         {
             response = text;
         }
});

alert(response);

Answer 2

Since jQuery AJAX requests fail if they are cross-domain, you can use cURL (in PHP) to set up a proxy server.

Suppose a PHP file responder.php has these contents:

$url = "https://www.google.com";
$ch      = curl_init( $url );
curl_set_opt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, "true")
$response= curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );
return $response;

Your AJAX request should be to this responder.php file so that it executes the cross-domain request.

Answer 3

try this

alert( data['responseText'] );