Browsers provide an XMLHttpRequest object which can be used to make synchronous HTTP requests from JavaScript:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | function httpGet(theUrl) { var xmlHttpReq = new XMLHttpRequest(); xmlHttpReq.open( "GET", theUrl, false ); // false for synchronous request xmlHttpReq.send( null ); return xmlHttpReq.responseText; } |
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