I'm currently working through the book "Head first HTML5 programming". I want to load the content of a file named sales.json
from a web server on my own machine. I used wampserver for this.
In the folder wamp/www/gumball/
I put all relevant .html
, .js
and .css
files, and also the sales.json
file.
My JavaScript code is very simple:
window.onload = function() {
var url = "http://localhost/gumball/sales.json";
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("GET", url);
request.onload = function() {
if (request.status == 200) {
updateSales(request.responseText);
}
};
request.send(null);
}
function updateSales(responseText) {
var salesDiv = document.getElementById("sales");
salesDiv.innerHTML = responseText;
}
This doesn't do anything! Typing the link: http://localhost/gumball/sales.json
in my browser opens the right file, so the link should be correct. Even when using the .js
files that come with the book (with a finished version of the application I'm trying to make), nothing loads.
Testing with alert statements tells me the request.onload
event never happens. I'm clueless as to why this is the case.
A fact I don't quite understand yet: when I type: http://localhost/gumball/sales.json:
in my browser (I added a colon at the end of the link), I get a 403 Forbidden error! Why does this happen? Does this have something to do with my problem?