Load .txt from remote server

Question

I'm trying to get the content of a .txt file stored in one of my servers from a javascript which run on another server.

I'm using:

$.ajax({  
    url: "http://example.com/file.txt",  
    dataType: "jsonp",  
    success: function(data) { remoteFile = data; }  
});  

But I get Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier at line 1 of the remote .txt file.

The text file is something like:

----My document----
Once upon a time, there was a fat princess...

How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

My suggestion is to create a php file that uses curl to get the contents of the file:

//getFile.php
<?php
    if(isset($_GET['filename'])) {
        $fName = $_GET['filename'];

        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fName);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

        $text = curl_exec($ch);
        echo $text;
    }
?>

And for the jQuery:

$.ajax({
    url : './getFile.php',
    data : { filename : 'http://example.com/file.txt'},
    success : function (r) { console.log(r) //your data }
})

Answer 2

It seems to me you wouldn't need to mess around as much if you used CORS instead of jsonp .

In PHP it seems to be as easy as adding something like this on the server side:

header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");

Here is one last resource, for getting CORS working .

Answer 3

Since you're not returing a json object, you should change your dataType to text.

$.ajax({  
   url: "http://example.com/file.txt",  
   dataType: "text",  
   success: function(data) { remoteFile = data; }  
});