Re: XMLHttpRequest

Hi Joe!

Ajax is a little bit counter-intuitive in some ways.  First off, the
requests always go back to the same server.  In fact, when you format an
Ajax request, you leave off the "http://server"; portion of the request; it
assumes it will be going back to the original server.

I have had good luck formatting my response in such a way that it shows up
in the browser if I invoke it directly.  That is, whatever URL I expect to
pass to the XMLHttpRequest call, I test that URL by simply typing it into
the address bar of my browser (I prefix it with the http://server/ portion).
That allows me to make sure each request is working correctly.

If you can do that and your XMLHttpRequest still isn't working, then I'm not
sure what the problem might be.

Joe

From: Joe Harriman

  Can anyone tell me where/which server the XMLHttpRequest is processed on
the i5?   I have been creating web pages with CGI since the last century
and just recently got into AJAX.  I know I'm a little late.  Sometimes, I
currently do a call from a CGI program to another CGI program and my new
page will kick off.  I try to do the same with AJAX and my call does not
work.  This leads me to believe that the i5 is running these two requests
in different servers.