Read a text file
- by Cyprus106
I have looked everywhere and surprisingly can't find a good solution to this! I've got the following code that is supposed to read a text file and display it's contents. But it's not reading, for some reason. Am I doing something wrong?
FTR, I can't use PHP for this. It's gotta be Javascript.
var txtFile = new XMLHttpRequest();
txtFile.open("GET", "http://www.mysite.com/todaysTrivia.txt", true);
txtFile.send(null);
txtFile.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (txtFile.readyState == 4) { // Makes sure the document is ready to parse.
alert(txtFile.responseText+" - "+txtFile.status);
//if (txtFile.status === 200) { // Makes sure it's found the file.
var doc = document.getElementById("Trivia-Widget");
if (doc) {
doc.innerHTML = txtFile.responseText ;
}
//}
}
txtFile.send(null);
}
Any good ideas what I'm doing wrong? It just keeps givimg me a zero status.
EDIT: I guess it would be a good idea to explain why I need this code. It's basically a widget that other folks can put on their own websites that grabs a line of text from my website and displays it on theirs. The problem is that it really can't be server-side since I've got zero control over everyone else's sites that use this.
