I have this simple script:

    ids="22656"
    url = ".0/users/"+ids+"/timeline";
    console.log( url );
    xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xmlhttp.open(“GET”, url ,true);
    xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
            console.log( xmlhttp.responseText );
        }
        xmlhttp.send( null );
    };    

But I don't quite understand why I'm getting:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

Can someone shed some light on this?

I have this simple script:

    ids="22656"
    url = "http://api.stackoverflow./1.0/users/"+ids+"/timeline";
    console.log( url );
    xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xmlhttp.open(“GET”, url ,true);
    xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
            console.log( xmlhttp.responseText );
        }
        xmlhttp.send( null );
    };    

But I don't quite understand why I'm getting:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

Can someone shed some light on this?

• javascript
• xmlhttprequest

• Well xmlhttp to a different domain than your own ... is not going to work anyway. Where do you see that error, and when? – Pointy Commented Mar 2, 2011 at 18:13

1 Answer 1

The quotes around GET are not proper. You must use standard single or double quotes for strings.