+2  A: 

For security reasons, you cannot use AJAX to send a request to a different domain.

Instead, you can make submit normal <form> that targets an <iframe>. (Note that you would not be able to read the response)

Alternatively, if you have control over or cooperation with the remote site, you can use JSONP.

SLaks  2010-10-17 01:31:15
Thanks you very much for your answer. I do own the remote site. Could you please elaborate a bit on the iframe solution? About jsonp, i thought this is only to get data from a remote script, have no idea how to submit data to remote script, any advice?
fractalbit  2010-10-17 01:49:51
If you own the remote site, you should use JSONP.
SLaks  2010-10-17 01:50:14
The `<iframe>` solution involves making a small or hidden `<iframe>`, setting the `<form>`'s target to the iframe, and submitting the form.
SLaks  2010-10-17 01:50:47
Hello, could you provide a simple example on how to use jsonp to actually provide data to a php script and not retrieve? Maybe i should change the type to jsonp in the above example and provide all the data in the url to call?
fractalbit  2010-10-17 02:03:49
http://www.carolinamantis.com/wordpress/?p=29
SLaks  2010-10-17 02:04:41
My problem is not how to retrieve the results of the submission but how to send the data of the form to the remote script...
fractalbit  2010-10-17 02:18:44
You can use the same code you're using right now; just change `POST` to `GET` and add `dataType:'jsonp'`.
SLaks  2010-10-17 02:28:38

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