Community Toolbar

This function is used to send http requests using Ajax to retrieve information from another domain. After the request finishes a callback function is called. The function gets two parameters: the strData containing the response body and httpCode describing the http status code.

CrossDomainHttpRequest(callback, method, url, postParams, userName, password, headersArr).

Parameter	Description	Range	Type
callback	A callback function to be called when the request is completed	A function with two parameters: strData - contains the response body httpCode - the status of the call: 200 for OK, other for an error.	function
method	The Http request type	[GET/POST]	string
url	The URL of the web service requested	A valid URL	string
postParams	POST data in case of a POST request (optional)	Null, or a string	string
username	In case basic authentication is required by the remote server you can specify the username (optional)	Null, or a string	string
password	In case basic authentication is required by the remote server you can specify the password (optional)	Null, or a string	string
headersArr	An array of headers that can be added to the request (optional)	An array of key-value objects, or NULL if not used. For example: arr[0] = new header(‘key’,’value’);	Header[]

Boolean (Succeeded or not)
Callback function is called

This function requires special permissions. You will need to apply the following security settings for your toolbar.
*Notice: API methods must be invoked after the web page has triggered the "onload" event.

This example contains two buttons: clicking on the left button will demonstrate a cross-domain call to an external website (outside of current domain). Clicking on the right button will attempt to create an HTTP request to a non-valid domain. 

<p>html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML  1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  <html  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"  >
  <head>
       <style type= "text/css">
           BODY {
               margin-left:0;
               margin-right:0;
               margin-top:0;
               margin-bottom:0;
               width:100%;
               height:100%;
               overflow:hidden;
               background-color:threedface;  }
       </style>
          <!-- Conduit API script declaration -->
          <script type="text/javascript"  language="javascript"  src="http://www.conduit.com/Api/BrowserCompApi.js"></script>
          <script type="text/javascript">
               function Request(UrlStr) {
                   var headersArr = new Array();
                   headersArr[0] = new Header("SecretKey", "121212");
                   headersArr[1] = new Header("Access_Token", "Conduit");
                   CrossDomainHttpRequest(CallbackFunction, "GET",  "http://" + UrlStr, null, null, null, headersArr);
               }
               function CallbackFunction(strData, httpCode) {
                   if (httpCode == 200)
                       document.getElementById("Page").innerHTML  = strData;
                   else
                       document.getElementById("Page").innerHTML  = "Page not found";
               }
       </script>
       <title>Cross Domain HTTP Request</title>
  </head>
  <body  onload="document.getElementById('MyDomain').innerHTML  = '<p>My domain is: ' + document.domain + '</p>'">
       <div style="position:relative;left:135px;" id="MyDomain"></div>
       <button style="width:250px;" onclick="Request('www.yahoo.com')">Cross Domain  HTTP request <br  />to www.yahoo.com</button>
       <button style="width:250px;" onclick="Request('wwwwwwwwwwwww')">Cross Domain  HTTP Request <br  />to Illegal site</button><br />
       <div id="Page" style="background-color:White;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;height:400px;width:500px;overflow:auto;">
           <p id="AlertText"  style="position:absolute;top:190px;left:190px;">(Requested Page)</p>
       </div>
  </body></p>