title: Read a text file
body: <p>I have looked everywhere and surprisingly can't find a good solution to this! I've got the following code that is supposed to read a text file and display it's contents. But it's not reading, for some reason. Am I doing something wrong? </p>
  
  <p>FTR, I can't use PHP for this. It's gotta be Javascript. </p>
  
  <pre><code>var txtFile = new XMLHttpRequest();
  txtFile.open("GET", "http://www.mysite.com/todaysTrivia.txt", true);
  txtFile.send(null);
  txtFile.onreadystatechange = function() { 
   if (txtFile.readyState == 4) {  // Makes sure the document is ready to parse.
    alert(txtFile.responseText+" - "+txtFile.status);  
       //if (txtFile.status === 200) {  // Makes sure it's found the file.         
          var doc = document.getElementById("Trivia-Widget");
          if (doc) {            
           doc.innerHTML = txtFile.responseText ;   
     }
      //}
   }
   txtFile.send(null);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any good ideas what I'm doing wrong? It just keeps givimg me a zero status. </p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I guess it would be a good idea to explain why I need this code. It's basically a widget that other folks can put on their own websites that grabs a line of text from my website and displays it on theirs. The problem is that it really can't be server-side since I've got zero control over everyone else's sites that use this. </p>