I was working on a small project and I wanted to test some Javascript code that read data formatted as JSON. I setup a small HTML file, sample.html
, with a reference to the jQuery library and invoke $.getJSON("http://localhost/example.json", function(data) { alert(data); });
. In Firefox I opened http://localhost/sample.html
and suspected to see some data. But instead I got an Invalid label in Firebug. What happened? After reading this Stackoverflow answer I knew why. I invoked the $.getJSON()
method with a URL starting with http://
, and jQuery automatically assumes the request is a JSONP request. But in this case that is not true. Replacing the URL with the relative example.json
is the solution.