Ajax call not working in Firefox and Google Chrome

Ajax call not working in Firefox and Google Chrome

Hi,

I'm a newbie to jquery and am using jquery version 1.4.2 in my java application. I am trying to develop an application, where I am accessing the data available in a remote server and rendering the data in an HTML page in my local system, using an Ajax call. The code works fine in IE7 and above. However, I am facing a problem in Firefox ( version 3.5.8) and google Chrome. The following error is reported in Firefox -

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Access to restricted URI denied"  code: "1012" nsresult: "0x805303f4 (NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)"  location: "file:///D:/jquery.js Line: 5113"]

While searching in google on this error, I have found that this occurs because Firefox's security model does not allow retrieving/accessing localhost resources.Also Firefox does not allow accessing resources from other domains.The following are the source code of the html and js files -

//HTML file

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>Show Content</title>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../js/jquery.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../js/cmine_widget.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="contentArea"></div>
    </body>
</html>

//JS file

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
$.post(
    "http://subhasis:8080/JSMine/DataAnalysisServlet",
    "{key:value}",
    function(data) { $("#contentArea").html(data); },"html"
);

});

Is there anything that I am missing? Or, is there any other way for carrying out this functionality? Any help on this would be of great help.

Thanks in advance,
Amitava