title: Loading a CSV file using jQuery GET returns the header but no data
body: <p>When reading a CSV file from a server using the jQuery 'GET' function I do not get any data. When I look at the code using FireBug I can see the GET request is sent and the return value is '200 OK'. Also I see that the header is returned correctly so the request is definitely made, and data is returned. This is also what I see in Wireshark. Here I see the complete contents of the CSV file is returned as a standard HTTP response.<br>
  But the actual data is not there in my script. Firebug shows an empty response and the 'success' function is never called. What could be wrong ?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: An essential part of information appeared to be missing from my question. The following code runs on my local machine and is started by Aptana Studio in Firefox using the built-in test server.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
      &lt;head&gt;       
          &lt;title&gt;New Web Project&lt;/title&gt;
          &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
          &lt;script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
         &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
          var csvData;
          $(document).ready(function() {
             $("#btnGET").click(function() {
                  csvData = $.ajax({
                      type: "GET",
                      url: "http://www.mywebsite.com/data/sample_file.csv",
                      dataType: "text/csv",
                      success: function () {
                         alert("done!"+ csvData.getAllResponseHeaders())
                       }
                  });
             });
          }) 
   &lt;/script&gt;
   &lt;/head&gt;   
  
       &lt;body&gt;
          &lt;h1&gt;New Web Project Page&lt;/h1&gt;
          &lt;button id="btnGET"&gt;GET Data&lt;/button&gt;
      &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>