jQuery and WebServices

Question

I want to call this WS http://www.webservicex.net/country.asmx?op=GetCountries

What is the best possible way to do it using jQuery

Answer 1

Maybe this will help:

• http://encosia.com/2008/03/27/using-jquery-to-consume-aspnet-json-web-services/

Answer 2

If you want to make Cross-Domain calls with jQuery you'll either have set-up a "proxy" file on your own server which fetches the remote contents and sends them to local jQuery or you need the webservice to support JSONP

Answer 3

You could do this using the ajax method (either POST or GET). Here i use GET as all remote (not on the same domain) requests should be specified as GET. I also provide a callback method to show the result as an alert.

$.ajax({
   type: "GET",
   url: "http://www.webservicex.net/country.asmx",
   data: "op=GetCountries",
   success: function(msg){
     alert( "Result: " + msg );
   }
 });