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Hi,

I'm trying to use REST service using xmlHTTPrequest, using the following code:

 var xmlHttp = null; 

 xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); 
 xmlHttp.open( "GET", theUrl, false );  

 xmlHttp.send( null ); 
 alert(xmlHttp.responseText); 

theURL is replaced by my service's URL. This code is located inside a click event of a button (RUN JAVASCRIPT).
The problem is: I do not receive any response. Is there a better way to invoke the service using the URL?
Thank you in advance.

Hello - please try to debug your code :: http://docs.appery.io/documentation/a...

In Developer tools - tab Network check if the requests are passing

Did you getting errors messages in console?

Hello! You can't do codealert(xmlHttp.responseText);/code right after you sent request. You would need to add event listeners and track received data. These links should help
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...
Also check jquery methods ajax, get, post
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.post/
It's easier to work with these methods