ajax to html

[Andrew Poulos]

Is it possible to send an XHR to a HTML page to be "processed" by
javascript in that page and to then get a response back?

Andrew Poulos

 

[Zvonko Biskup]

Is it possible to send an XHR to a HTML page to be "processed" by
javascript in that page and to then get a response back?

I think that the name ...Request Object makes it obvious that it makes a
reuest to a server-side script. I don't think that what you are asking is
possible.

 

[Bart Van der Donck]

Is it possible to send an XHR to a HTML page to be "processed" by
javascript in that page and to then get a response back?

Not with client-side javascript. XHR always returns the full response.
But tnder controlled conditions you could 'eval' the javascript code
inside the caller file.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Is it possible to send an XHR to a HTML page to be "processed" by
javascript in that page and to then get a response back?

No. There are no "HTML pages" to begin with; there are HTML *documents*
that are not programs (<prayer_wheel><acronym title="HyperText Markup
Language">HTML</acronym> is not a programming language. There are no HTML
commands. </>; [psf 7.9]), but they may *contain* (ECMAScript-compatible)
programs (through the [X]HTML `script' element) that are run *when parsed*.


PointedEars

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Not with client-side javascript. XHR always returns the full response.
But tnder controlled conditions you could 'eval' the javascript code
inside the caller file.

I would presume "that page" means the HTML document requested, not the HTML
document from where the request originates. And the code in "that page" is
_not_ executed on such a request in its original context, and also not with
"external" eval().


PointedEars

 

[Bart Van der Donck]

I would presume "that page" means the HTML document requested, not the HTML
document from where the request originates. And the code in "that page" is
_not_ executed on such a request in its original context, and also not with
"external" eval().

True. But the original poster might (or might not) be interested to
'eval' the returned code, or a part of it. That is the only client-
side possibility here.

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