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    copied!<p>When reading a CSV file from a server using the jQuery 'GET' function I do not get any data. When I look at the code using FireBug I can see the GET request is sent and the return value is '200 OK'. Also I see that the header is returned correctly so the request is definitely made, and data is returned. This is also what I see in Wireshark. Here I see the complete contents of the CSV file is returned as a standard HTTP response.<br> But the actual data is not there in my script. Firebug shows an empty response and the 'success' function is never called. What could be wrong ?</p> <p>EDIT: An essential part of information appeared to be missing from my question. The following code runs on my local machine and is started by Aptana Studio in Firefox using the built-in test server.</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;New Web Project&lt;/title&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; var csvData; $(document).ready(function() { $("#btnGET").click(function() { csvData = $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "http://www.mywebsite.com/data/sample_file.csv", dataType: "text/csv", success: function () { alert("done!"+ csvData.getAllResponseHeaders()) } }); }); }) &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;h1&gt;New Web Project Page&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;button id="btnGET"&gt;GET Data&lt;/button&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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