File to string

[xcom923]

I know there is a script here that turns a file into a string but can it work for things outside the server it was run on. I was using

<script>
function getFile(filename)
{ oxmlhttp = null;
try
{ oxmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
oxmlhttp.overrideMimeType("text/xml");
}
catch(e)
{ try
{ oxmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch(e)
{ return null;
}
}
if(!oxmlhttp) return null;
try
{ oxmlhttp.open("GET",filename,false);
oxmlhttp.send(null);
}
catch(e)
{ return null;
}
return oxmlhttp.responseText;
}
</script>

and that wouldn't work for:

file = getFile("http://ja_squared.250free.com/pages/chatroom.pj");

am I doing something wrong (it returns null and I put the file in the address bar and it was right) or can this not be done? Please help

[looka]

if u call a file outside from a server from which your code originated, no browser except IE5.0 and newer will be able to catch it. i saw somewhere in manuals, so it mustve been true

[glenngv]

I think only IE5.5 allows external files to be fetched thru XMLHTTP.