Read Life cell file

attempt 1

r = 'http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=acorn_106.lif';
  $.ajax(r,{
    crossDomain: true,
    success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR){
      coot.log('ajax success');
    },
    error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
      coot.log('ajax fail [' + typeof jqXHR + ']');
    }
  });
// output
jqXHR
Object { readyState=4, status=302, statusText="error"}

Log wget

➜  crockford_js_the_good_parts git:(master) ✗ wget -d http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=bargespaceship_106.lif
wget -d http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp\?p\=bargespaceship_106.lif
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.12 on linux-gnu.

--2011-02-12 12:49:20--  http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=bargespaceship_106.lif
Resolving www.conwaylife.com... 65.182.101.250
Caching www.conwaylife.com => 65.182.101.250
Connecting to www.conwaylife.com|65.182.101.250|:80... connected.
Created socket 3.
Releasing 0x08aba240 (new refcount 1).

---request begin---
GET /pattern.asp?p=bargespaceship_106.lif HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu)
Accept: */*
Host: www.conwaylife.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
---response begin---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:49:21 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=bargespaceship_106.lif
Content-Length: 1205
Content-Length: 1205
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; Charset=ISO-8859-1
Expires: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:49:20 GMT
Cache-control: no-cache

---response end---
200 OK
Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse.
Length: 1205 (1.2K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `pattern.asp?p=bargespaceship_106.lif.1'

100%[======================================>] 1,205       --.-K/s   in 0s      

2011-02-12 12:49:21 (63.6 MB/s) - `pattern.asp?p=bargespaceship_106.lif.1' saved [1205/1205]

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