How does browser know if its XML or not? 1

[jpo245]

Kindly take a look at these 2 docs:

http://openrico.org/rico/getPersonInfo.do?firstName=Pat&lastName=Barnes

http://niftis.rathernifty.com/niftis/getPersonInfo.do?firstName=Pat&lastName=Barnes

Why is one viewed as an XML doc, while the other is not? This is puzzling me...

And my code can't work coz of this distinction..

Any help would be much apperciated. Thanks!

 

[dexter195]

are you using the same webserver for each of the files? it might be that if your using different webservers, they may require the xml files to be located in specific folders, uncommon to both web servers.

 

[jpo245]

actually, im not using the same webserver.. I'm actually trying to use a php script to output XML for ajax purposes, but for some reason even though my script outputs correctly, the ajax doesnt seem to regognize it...

 

[dexter195]

im not overly familiar with ajax at the moment, but i have read that certain browsers can have problems displaying it, there's problems when the back button is used but i dont know if there are any problems with the various servers.

however since your using php which is a sever side language, and i presume that your using the same script on both servers i would presume that your problem lies there. have a look at this link and it might help you further, it contains some links to php and ajax related stuff and some information about ajax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX#PHP