That's a great point, for most web services, this request would be blocked at the browser level by the Same Origin Policy. Fortunately for me, this site allowed

That's a great point, for most web services, this request would be blocked at the browser level by the Same Origin Policy. Fortunately for me, this site allowed client-side calls by returning a Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header[1], specifically designed to allow this type of cross-domain access. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy#Cross-Origin_Resource_Sharing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy#Cross-Origin...