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Ok this looks promising, as far as you know would this work for external websites outside of my own domain?
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Ok this looks promising, as far as you know would this work for external websites outside of my own domain?

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Nope, only for the same domain....for external domain, you need to get the content from your server side script
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Nope, only for the same domain....for external domain, you need to get the content from your server side script

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I am looking for a way in javascript/jquery to load the contents of a URL into a variable.
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I am looking for a way in javascript/jquery to load the contents of a URL into a variable.

Load URL contents into a variable

JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.

JavaScript

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information to be displayed in a web browser, providing both the structure and content for what is sent from a web server through the use of tags. The current implementation of the HTML specification is HTML5.