jQuery Call to WebService returns “No Transport” e

Question

I have the following web service;

    [WebMethod]
    public string HelloWorld()
    {
        return "Hello World";
    }

It's stock standard with no alterations to the class decorators.

I have this jQuery method;

var webMethod = "http://localhost:54473/Service1.asmx/HelloWorld"; 

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    data: "{}",  
    dataType: "json",
    url: webMethod,
    success: function(msg){ alert(msg.d); },
    error: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        alert(errorThrown);
          }
});

It's a post action because later on I need to post data to it.

When I execute the jQuery I get a "No transport" error returned.

One thing I should also mention is that the jQuery is stored in a simple HTML file on my machine and the WebService is running on my machine also.

There is no code behind on the HTML page it's simply a web page and not a c# project or anything.

Can anyone please point me in the right direction here?

Answer 1

I too got this problem and all solutions given above either failed or were not applicable due to client webservice restrictions.

For this, I added an iframe in my page which resided in the client;s server. So when we post our data to the iframe and the iframe then posts it to the webservice. Hence the cross-domain referencing is eliminated.

We added a 2-way origin check to confirm only authorized page posts data to and from the iframe.

Hope it helps

<iframe style="display:none;" id='receiver' name="receiver" src="https://iframe-address-at-client-server">
 </iframe>

//send data to iframe
var hiddenFrame = document.getElementById('receiver').contentWindow;
hiddenFrame.postMessage(JSON.stringify(message), 'https://client-server-url');

//The iframe receives the data using the code:
window.onload = function () {
    var eventMethod = window.addEventListener ? "addEventListener" : "attachEvent";
    var eventer = window[eventMethod];
    var messageEvent = eventMethod == "attachEvent" ? "onmessage" : "message";
    eventer(messageEvent, function (e) {
        var origin = e.origin;
        //if origin not in pre-defined list, break and return
        var messageFromParent = JSON.parse(e.data);
        var json = messageFromParent.data;

        //send json to web service using AJAX   
        //return the response back to source
        e.source.postMessage(JSON.stringify(aJAXResponse), e.origin);
    }, false);
}