Use JSONP without wrapping response - php

My server outputs this JSON when I put the URI in web browser. My client app will get this JSON using JSONP because it accesses the foreign domain.
{
"is_execution_successful":true,
"data": "something"
}
Is there a way to do a JSONP without wrapping the response like this:
echo $_GET['json_callback']. '('. json_encode($rtnjsonobj) . ')';
I don't have permission to edit the server output. How to get the JSON using AJAX/JQuery?
Reference I read: http://remysharp.com/2007/10/08/what-is-jsonp/

JSONP has technically nothing to do with JSON. It's simply javascript code.
So if the response is valid JSON, it will not do anything useful when you run it as javascript (JSONP). Especially in this case, the JSON causes a syntax error when executed as javascript.
You can make cross-origin ajax request to the resource, but this is only possible if the server sends this header:
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
The star can be replaced with your specific origin of course, it doesn't have to be a wildcard

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return jsonp instead of json

I slowly implement jsonp compared to json as I read jsonp approach is safer, it prevent CORS. So in my server side how should the jsonp look like?
What I did for json is just
$arr = array();
$arr[] = {'a'=>'apple','b'=>'ballon'}
json_encode($arr);
what if it's for jsonp?
JSONP doesn't "prevent CORS", JSONP is a workaround to enable GET requests from third-party domains by explicitly requiring the server to cooperate with the Javascript. The way that works is that the requesting Javascript passes along the name of a callback function it would like to be executed. The server then cooperates by wrapping its response in this callback function. When this response returns to the browser as embedded code, the callback is executed with the data from the server.
If the request gives the callback name foo, the response should look like:
foo({"a": "apple", ...});
So:
printf('%s(%s);', $_GET['callback'], json_encode($arr));

Receive JSON object from HTTP Get in PHP

I am trying to implement a php client that sends an HTTP GET to the server which sends back a JSON object with the return information. I know how to decode the JSON once my php script has received it, but how would I go about actually getting it?
EDIT: Note - I send the server an HTTP GET, and it generates and sends back a JSON file. It is not a file sitting on the server.
Check out file_get_contents
$json = file_get_contents('http://somesite.com/getjson.php');
Browsers act differently based on what the server responds. It does not matter what type of request you make to the server (be it GET, POST, etc), but to return JSON as a response you have to set the header in the script you make the request to:
header('Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8;');
And then echo the JSON string, for example:
//...populating your result data array here...//
// Print out the JSON formatted data
echo json_encode($myData);
User agent will then get the JSON string. If AJAX made the request then you can simply parse that result into a JavaScript object that you can handle, like this:
//...AJAX request here...//
// Parse result to JavaScript object
var myData=JSON.parse(XMLHttp.responseText);
The header itself is not -really- necessary, but is sort-of good practice. JSON.parse() can parse the response regardless.

Cross-domain AJAX request error on HTTP 200

I'm writing a very basic Facebook app, but I'm encountering an issue with cross-domain AJAX requests (using jQuery).
I've written a proxy page to make requests to the graph via cURL that I'm calling via AJAX. I can visit the page in the browser and see it has the correct output, but requesting the page via always causes jQuery to fire the error handler callback.
So I have two files:
Proxy, which does the cURL request
<?php
//Do some cURL requests, manipulate some data
//return it as JSON
print json_encode($data);
?>
The facebook canvas, which contains this AJAX call
$.getJSON("http://myDomain.com/proxy.php?get=stuff",
function(JSON)
{
alert("success");
})
.error(function(err)
{
alert("err");
});
Inspecting the call with Firebug shows it returns with HTTP code 200 OK, but the error handler is always fired, and no content is returned. This happens whether I set Content-Type: application/json or not.
I have written JSON-returning APIs in PHP before using AJAX and never had this trouble.
What could be causing the request to always trigger the error handler?
Recently I experienced the same issue and my problem was the fact that there was a domain difference between the webpage and the API, due to the SSL.
The web page got a HTTP address (http://myDomain.com) and the content I was requesting with JQuery was on the same domain but HTTPS protocol (https://myDomain.com). The browser (Chrome in this case) considered that the domains were differents (the first one with HTTP, the second one with HTTPS), just because of the protocol, and because the request response type was "application/json", the browser did not allowed it.
Basically, the request worked fine, but your browser did not allowed the response content.
I had to add a "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header to make it work. If you're in the same case, have a look there: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/http_access_control.
I hope that'll help you, I got a headache myself.

How to get json data coming from another domain?

I want to use the google images api. In the past when I worked with json I simply used the ajax function to get the json from my own server. But now I will be getting it from an external domain:
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?q=fuzzy monkey&v=1.0
Obviously I can't load this using js since its not from an internal url. So in these cases how does one work with json data. Are you supposed to load it via CURL using a server side script or is there another way?
You can make use of JSONP by adding a callback GET param.
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?q=fuzzy%20monkey&v=1.0&callback=hello
Then you can request it with jQuery's $.getJSON().
$.getJSON('https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?q=fuzzy%20monkey&v=1.0&callback=?', function(response) {
console.log(response.responseData);
});
jsFiddle.
You must use Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Origin_Resource_Sharing)
It's not as complicated as it sounds...simply set your request headers appropriately...in Python it would look like:
self.response.headers.add_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
self.response.headers.add_header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, OPTIONS');
self.response.headers.add_header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'X-Requested-With');
self.response.headers.add_header('Access-Control-Max-Age', '86400');

AJAX, Subdomains and the 200 OK response

A non-hypothetical but abstracted situation:
I have a domain www.foo.com, from which I'm making an AJAX POST to beta.foo.com. Examining the XHR object, I see a response header of 200 OK, but no response text - I even get a response 12B long, which is the exact response (a 12-character string) that I'm expecting - but the response text is blank.
If this is a cross-domain issue, why am I getting 200 OK, and better yet - why am I seeing the PHP functions fire on the beta.foo.com side - yet getting no response?
You can't do cross subdomains ajax calls that easy. There is something called Same origin policy that prevents you from doing that. If you want sort this issue you need to use JSONP or Iframes.
Install firebug and you will see an http 200 code and an error: that error is SOP acting.
You mentioned that you're checking the responseText property. Is it possible your response is in XML format?
If you send an XML request, or the response type is 'text/xml', you will get a value for responseXML. I believe that the responseText property can be blank if it's in XML format.
Random example from google:
http://javascript.about.com/library/blajax08.htm

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