Hi,

I try to load the contents of a user-specified url, like so:

1. $.get(
2.         urlValue, function(data) {
3.                   alert('page content: ' + data);
4.          });

This works fine for url's that contain a filename, such as http://mysite.com/index.html

It does not work for url's without a filename specified. such as http://mysite.com or http://mysite.com/
When I try that:
- data is empty (not null, just empty)
- the textStatus is "success" and the XMLHttpRequest.readyState is 4 (= complete).
- XMLHttpRequest.status is 0. I don't think that's a valid status value.
- XMLHttpRequest.getAllResponseHeaders() returns null

However, looking at Firebug I get different results for different web sites:

• http://www.google.com/
  

  1. Host	www.google.com
     User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
     Accept	*/*
     Accept-Language	en-us,en;q=0.5
     Accept-Encoding	gzip,deflate
     Accept-Charset	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
     Keep-Alive	115
     Connection	keep-alive
     Referer	http://godspeedelbow.com
     Origin	http://godspeedelbow.com

  the response is:

  1. Failed to load source for: http://www.google.com/

  That's not a valid response, I think so hence the status = 0, maybe?
  
  
  
  
• http://getfirebug.com/logging
  
  1. Request header

  2. Host	getfirebug.com
     User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
     Accept	*/*
     Accept-Language	en-us,en;q=0.5
     Accept-Encoding	gzip,deflate
     Accept-Charset	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
     Keep-Alive	115
     Connection	keep-alive
     Referer	http://godspeedelbow.com
     Origin	http://godspeedelbow.com

  
  


1. Response Header

2. Date	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:28:17 GMT
   Server	Apache
   Content-Location	logging.php
   Vary	negotiate
   TCN	choice
   X-Powered-By	PHP/5.2.9
   Cache-Control	max-age=1, private, must-revalidate
   Expires	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:28:18 GMT
   Keep-Alive	timeout=5, max=971
   Connection	Keep-Alive
   Content-Type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
   Content-Encoding	gzip
   Transfer-Encoding	chunks

What could I do to make this work? Do I first need to make a HEAD request to retrieve the location of the file and then request the contents of that file?

Thanks a lot!
Eelke