jQuery .ajax call to bit.ly returns results in IE but not FF or Chrome
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I am trying to call to the bit.ly URL shortening service using jQuery with an .ajax call.
<html><head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.twipler.com/settings/scripts/jquery.1.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery.fn.shorten = function(url)
{
var resultUrl = url;
$.ajax(
{
url: "http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&login=twipler&apiKey=R_4e618e42fadbb802cf95c6c2dbab3763&longUrl=" + url,
async: false,
dataType: 'json',
data: "",
type: "GET",
success:
function (json) { resultUrl = json.results[url].shortUrl; }
});
return resultUrl;
} ;
</script></head><body>
<a href="#"
onclick="alert($().shorten('http://amiconnectedtotheinternet.com'));">
Shorten</a> </body> </html>
This works in IE8 but does not work in FireFox (3.5.9) nor in Chrome. In both cases 'json' is null.
Headers in IE8
GET http://api.bit.ly/shorten?ver..[SNIP]..dtotheinternet.com HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*
Accept-Language: en-US
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0;
SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2;
.NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Host: api.bit.ly
Connection: Keep-Alive
Headers in Chrome
GET http://api.bit.ly/shorten?versio..[SNIP]..nectedtotheinternet.com HTTP/1.1
Host: api.bit.ly
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1045 Safari/532.5
Origin: file://
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
So the only obvious difference is that Chrome is sending "Origin: file://" and I've no idea how to stop it doing that.
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