Use Of Ajax - for opening a file ans showing its contents on webpage asynchronously

Question

I am redirecting output of some unix commands say ls -a >> test.txt to the file named test.txt. Now I need to open this file and show the contents on the browser asynchronously as the user executes the commands on clients side . I need to append the contents of this file on webpage by continously polling the server . I am new to ajax . How do we open the file and obtain contents so that they can be displayed ? Please explain with some example . my application server is Django Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You'll probably be performing a http GET on the file in question. Just look up absolutely any article about how to implement simple AJAX. Examples abound. Use the Google.