XHR issues

[nottombrown]

Hey, I'm setting up an app to play a themesong for each developer when we push code to github.

I have a server that I want to poll for updates, but I'm having difficulty accessing that data via the client. I'm confused as to why the following works properly when requesting data from twitter but fails when requesting from my server hosted on heroku.

xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()

# request = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=open.spotify.com%2Ftrack&include_entities=true'
request = 'http://shipify-server.herokuapp.com/'

xhr.open('GET', request)

xhr.onreadystatechange = ()->
  if (xhr.readyState != 4)
    return
  console.log xhr
  data = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText)
  handle(data)

xhr.send(null)

handle = (data)->
  console.log data

[nottombrown]

Resolved using socket.io

[jjgonecrypto]

i'm interested in that pairing - socket.io & heroku talking to a spotify app.

how has it been working so far?

[nottombrown]

It's been working well. Make sure that you whitelist your heroku server in the RequiredPermissions of your manifest.json

[jjgonecrypto]

will do. are you open sourcing the product or is it private?

[nottombrown]

The work in progress is open source. Check it out here: https://github.com/Grouper/shipify https://github.com/Grouper/shipify-server

Hope it's helpful, and feel free to message me outside of this issue.

[jjgonecrypto]

sweet - will check it out.

Play themesongs for people whenever they ship code to github.

cute. :)