xdrgo

(c)Bumblehead, 2013 MIT-license

CORS is not supported by IE < 8.

xdrgo is beta and is not for production use

https://stripe.com/blog/stripejs-and-jsonp no need for iframes as well as jsonp

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2010/05/13/xdomainrequest-restrictions-limitations-and-workarounds.aspx xdr limitations:

• only GET and POST may be used
• no header customisation
• only text/plain is supported as a Content-Type
• no authentication or cookies may be sent with request

Simple/dumb xhr (xdr for IE) object for performing cross-domain requests, using CORS when available or xdr as a fallback.

Another way to make cross-domain requests is JSONP. JSONP exploits unintended browser functionality. You may want to use JSONP rather than CORS if you need to support older browsers (lt IE8).

CORS and xdr supports the full range of REST methods (GET, POST, DELETE, etc.). CORS provides complete error handling. It limits access a malicious page would have to remote server data. It does not expose clients to remote server vulnerabilities.

xdrgo is not a comprehensive solution for xhr/xdr usage. It's perfect for the most common type of request using non-chunked json, html and form-urlencoded data formats. It assumes there is one 'success' response, 200.

xdrgo uses the node.js callback convention.

• xdrgo.JSON( type, url, data, token, fn, time )

  The first two parameters are required. Data is sent and received in the JSON format. Data is passed to and returned from the method in the form of an object.

  xdrgo.JSON('POST', '/hi', {hi:'b'}, null, function (err, res) {
    if (err) return fn(new Error(err));     
    fn(null, res);
  }, 1000);

• xdrgo.JSONU( type, url, data, token, fn, time )

  Calls xdrgo.JSON after adding a unique parameter to the url. Used to avoid cached responses.

• xdrgo.getTextHTML( url, fn, time )

  This method makes 'GET' requests with "Content-Type" "text/html". Useful for requesting static template and text files.

  xdrgo.getTextHTML(htmlUrl, function (err, template) {
    if (err) return fn(new Error('failed load html: ' + htmlUrl));        
    fn(null, template);
  });

• xdrgo.getTextHTMLU( url, fn, time )

  Calls xdrgo.getTextHTML after adding a unique parameter to the url. Used to avoid cached responses.

• xdrgo.newRequest( )

  Returns a browser-supported xhr object. For most browser's the value returned by this method is new XMLHttpRequest()

• xdrgo.getUriAsUnique( url )

  Returns a new url with a unique parameter added.

  xdrgo.getUriAsUnique('/a.html'); // "/a.html?uid=1377988402490"

• xdrgo.addKeyVal( url, k, v )

  Returns a new url with key/val parameters added.

  var url = '/resource';
  url = xdrgo.addKeyVal(url, 'a', '1'); // "/resource?a=1"
  url = xdrgo.addKeyVal(url, 'b', '2'); // "/resource?a=1&b=2"

• xdrgo.getArgsObjAsUriStr( argsObj )

  Top-level properties of the object are returned as a key/value string. Each value is encoded. The keys are joined in alphabetical order.

  For more comprehensive object serialization use url-formencoded.

  xdrgo.getArgsObjAsUriStr({
    modified : 137798840249,
    currency : 'usd'
  }); 
  // "currency=usd&modifed=137798840249"

• xdrgo.getUriStrAsArgsObj( uriStr )

  Retuns an object with properties named and defined with values from the url. vanillaUri and hash are always named properties on the object returned.

  xdrgo.getUriStrAsArgsObj(
    "/resource/currency=usd&time=137798840249#hashvalue"
  }); 
  // {
  //   vanillaUri : '/resource/currency=usd&time=137798840249#val',
  //   hash : 'val',
  //   lastmodified : 137798840249,
  //   currency : 'usd'
  // }

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(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Bumblehead chris@bumblehead.com

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