title: GET xml via Jquery ajax
body: <p>I'm trying to GET xml from a server by using jquery ajax. I can get it working if I host an xml file (containing the same xml data) somewhere myself, but when I try to get it from the (target) server, I receive no data. But if I put the server url in my browser I do get the xml, so the url is fine.</p>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$.ajax({
      async: false,
      type:"GET",
      url: url,
      crossDomain: true,
      data: "user=user1&amp;password=password1&amp;id=2",
      dataType:"xml",
      success: function(data) { alert(data);},
      error: function(event, jqXHR, ajaxSettings, thrownError) {
          console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 4));
          console.log(JSON.stringify(jqXHR, null, 4));
          console.log(JSON.stringify(ajaxSettings, null, 4));
          console.log(JSON.stringify(thrownError, null, 4));
          console.log(JSON.stringify(this, null, 4));
      },
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>How do I debug this?</strong> The GET request returns a statuscode 200:OK. The response headers show a content-length of 22194, but I get no response body? The output I get from the console logging is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"{
      "readyState": 0,
      "status": 0,
      "statusText": "[Exception... \"Failure\"  nsresult: \"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)\"  location: \"JS frame :: http://myownurl.com/jquery.js :: .send :: line 8526\"  data: no]"
  }"
  ""error""
  "{}"
  undefined
  "{
      "url": "http://targeturl.com/api/get?user=user1&amp;password=password1&amp;id=2",
      "type": "GET",
      "isLocal": false,
      "global": true,
      "processData": true,
      "async": false,
      "contentType": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8",
      "accepts": {
          "*": "*/*",
          "text": "text/plain",
          "html": "text/html",
          "xml": "application/xml, text/xml",
          "json": "application/json, text/javascript",
          "script": "text/javascript, application/javascript, application/ecmascript, application/x-ecmascript"
      },
      "contents": {
          "xml": {},
          "html": {},
          "json": {},
          "script": {}
      },
      "responseFields": {
          "xml": "responseXML",
          "text": "responseText"
      },
      "converters": {
          "text html": true
      },
      "flatOptions": {
          "url": true,
          "context": true
      },
      "jsonp": "callback",
      "crossDomain": true,
      "dataType": "xml",
      "dataTypes": [
          "xml"
      ],
      "hasContent": false
  }"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(I'm not sure if it makes any difference, but I'm trying this in FireFox)</p>