Background GET requests without Javascript
November 10, 2012This is a very simple and poor man's way to call a URL when you don't necessary care about the response data
In your markup create a hidden <iframe>
<iframe name='link_loader' style='display:none;'/>
Whenever you need to call a url simply point the target attribute of an anchor to the link_loader iframe
<a href='http://somesite.com/?action=ping' target='link_loader'>Ping</a>
<a href='http://somesite.com/?action=pong' target='link_loader'>Pong</a>
An advantage of such an approach is that unlike regular AJAX solutions, you can make GET requests across multiple domains