Comments on: Using Script tags to do remote HTTP calls in Javascript

By: Bucabay

Bucabay — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:02:26 +0000

I just read your post on Appjet closing. There is an app I wrote on appjet that does JavaScript remoting for any webpage.

http://json-proxy.appjet.net/

For example, if you want to get google.com:

So callback() would receive google.com’s html as a string.

Too bad it won’t be up for long.

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Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:16:44 +0000

[...] reasons. JSONP is a convention between the client and the server to bypass this restriction using script tag injection. More explanation here. It is this convention that allows us to call Yahoo Pipes directly from [...]

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:59:30 +0000

Hey, As the first guy said, current KHTML browsers lack of execution in the script tag, and depends on your page statistics this is requirement (5%).

So, doesn’t this finally mean that I have to setup a proxy and make a simple XHR call?

By: tomputer

tomputer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:45:31 +0000

Google gadgets

So I’ve been messing around with various different widget frameworks on and off over the last few months as preparation for a workshop I’m going to be involved with. I started out with Yahoo Widgets (née Konfabulator) mainly because the ex…

By: jayfresh

jayfresh — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:36:06 +0000

Thanks! Ok, so I’m not with you yet – Jetty’s a Java-based web server, right? What are you referring to when you say “deploying directly from your local server”? The problem I’m trying to solve here is the restriction on javascript running in a browser…

By: i wasn't at your persc%nto presentation

i wasn't at your persc%nto presentation — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:33:11 +0000

can i flag up a major tech post of the month here?

surely there must be someway of deploying directly from your local server on a lightweight system like jetty. of course I have little experience with JS and have just blasted through it first time… at least my first point is valid!

By: jayfresh

jayfresh — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:37:41 +0000

Michael, ok, that’s pretty interesting… what does JSONP let you do that wouldn’t be enabled by the JSON returning a custom callback function?

By: jayfresh

jayfresh — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:33:42 +0000

Cheers Patrick, that’d be interesting. I’m no Fireworks expert, so I thought you’d done some wicked image manipulation programmatically… although technically I guess you did.

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:10:42 +0000

Jon, suggest checking out the JSONP convention as well. One of the issues with JSON is that a JSON response alone is useless – the third party’s Javascript has to do something with it at the end, like call a callback method.

By: PatrickQG

PatrickQG — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:45:45 +0000

The 3D view is a simple “screw around with a text block in Fireworks with the skew tool”. I can throw up the source png somewhere if you want to have a look at it.