jQuery $.get() function succeeds with 200 but returns no content in firefox

Question

I'm writing my first bit of jQuery and I'm having a problem with jQuery.get(). I'm calling this;

$.get(url, updateList);

where updateList is defined like so;

  function updateList(data)
  {
    if (data) 
    { 
      $('#contentlist').html(data); 
    }
    else
    {
      $('#contentlist').html('<li><a href="#" id="synclink">Nothing found. Try again</a></li>'); 
    }
  }

The function runs, and updateList is called. It works fine in IE. However, in Firefox, the data parameter is always empty. I would expect it to be filled with the content of the webpage I passed in as the URL. Am I using it wrong?

Notes;

• in Firebug, I've enabled the Net panel, and I get the request showing up. I get a 200 OK. The Headers tab looks fine, while the Response and Html panels are both empty.
• The page I'm trying to download is a straight html page -- there's no problem with server code.
• The page with Javascript is local to my machine; the page I'm downloading is hosted on the net.
• I've tried checking the url by copy-pasting it from my page into the browser -- it happily returns content.
• The error occurs even in Firefox Safe Mode -- hopefully that rules out rogue addins.

Answer 1

You'll most likely need to fix your page that you're quering with XHR because it should be returning content. Copy paste the link in the Firebug net tab and make a new tab, and edit that page with your text editor so it spits content back.

Answer 2

Stick alert (or breakpoint in Firebug) and see if the data returned is not an object (or if there is any data). If the former - you may need to drill into the object to get your markup

Answer 3

Are you falling afoul of the single-origin policy? Firefox may be being stricter about what constitutes a different domain, or IE may be relaxing its policies as a result of administrative settings.

Also, what do you get if you try a Webkit browser (Chrome or Safari)?

Answer 4

You probably won't be able to do this due to cross domain security. IE will allow you to ajax remote domain when running from file://, but FF and Chrome wont.

try to put both files on the same server and see if it works (it should)