JSON works Locally but not with Servers - json

Question

Here is my little first project as practice, having real trouble figuring out how to use JSON, took me a while to get it work locally but still no luck with servers, and tried few a including one i hosted, and even tried it with other hosted json files.
http://jsfiddle.net/Atlas_/Mgyc5/1/
$.ajax({
dataType: "json",
async: false,
url: "package.json", //https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmw63i4v7dtnx6t/package.json
'success': function (json) {
theQuiz = json.quiz;
console.log(json);
console.log(theQuiz);
}
});

Answer 1

When you access another domain be carefully with "Crossdomain".
To use with dropbox, try changing the URL to:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fmw63i4v7dtnx6t/package.json
Your code will be like this:
$.ajax({
dataType: "json",
async: false,
url: "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fmw63i4v7dtnx6t/package.json",
success: function (json) {
theQuiz = json.quiz;
console.log(json);
console.log(theQuiz);
}
});
When you request 'dl.dropboxusercontent.com', you have this:
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/Access_control_CORS?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=HTTP_access_control
"In this case, the server responds with a Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
* which means that the resource can be accessed by any domain in a cross-site manner."
Another options: Some websites (twitter, for example) work with "jsonp". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP or ..you can create your own proxy.