Connect to a remote system using Javascript

[mrcoolguy]

Hi ppl
Is it possible to connect to a remote host(whose IP address is known) and download a file on the remote host using Javascript.If yes then How do we do it??
If no,then how can we get the desired functionality when the other script is in HTML+Javascript .
Please Help ASAP.
tHANKS iN ADVANCE

Aditya Darbha

[acoder]

Cross-domain access is not available to JavaScript, but you can use some server-side code to make a Http request to the other domain. Then make an Ajax request to this script on your domain which passes the request on to the other domain, aka. cross-domain proxy.