Html Page:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>xhr</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
var xhr_test = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr_test.open("GET","xhrtest",true);
xhr_test.send();
alert(xhr_test.responseText);
</script>
</body>
</html>
The main.py file:
import webapp2
from handlers import cookies,pages
application = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
('/xhr',pages.XHR),
('/xhrtest', cookies.XHRTest)
],
debug=True)
The Request handlers:
class XHRTest(webapp2.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
self.response.write('0')
and,
class XHR(webapp2.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
f = open('static/html/xhr.html','r')
self.response.write(f.read())
Now, when I hit upon the url localhost:8080/xhrtest the browser promptly shows the response 0 as the page's content.
Hitting the url localhost:8080/xhr which indirectly hits /xhrtest, pops up an empty string in the alert box (the responseText is an empty string) but checking chrome's response tab under the network tab, I can see that the request's response is 0.
So why is xhr_test.responseText not able to display the same response?
