No response from jQuery ajax call

I've been struggling with this for way too long tonight, and I haven't found anything useful when searching for answers. It's probabl开发者_如何学Goy very simple.

I'm trying to load data using the Spotify Metadata API by doing AJAX calls with jQuery. Running this request in a browser works just fine: http://ws.spotify.com/search/1/track?q=foo But when I try to load the same request using jQuery I get nothing in response. I've tried different contentTypes and dataTypes, but I can't figure out what's wrong!

The code is quite simple:

$.ajax({ 
    url: "http://ws.spotify.com/search/1/track",
    data: "q=foo",
    success: function(xml){
        // do stuff...
    },
    contentType: "application/xml",
    dataType: "xml"
});

If I save the XML returned when running the query in the browser, and loading that file as the url-parameter in the $.ajax-request, everything works just fine, so I guess it has something to do with the format.

The documentation for the Spotify Metadata API might be useful, but I can't figure out what I could be doing wrong.

You cannot make a cross domain ajax call (in most browsers). Since the spotify api end point does not yet support jsonp then you will have to make a server side proxy which will feed the xml back to your page.

I think you're running into limitations in XMLHTTPRequest that prevent XSS requests. More documentation available here: http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/asp.net/calling-cross-domain-web-services-in-ajax/. There are a number of work arounds listed.