javascript - XMLHttpRequest status 0 (responseText is empty)

Cannot get data with XMLHttpRequest (status 0 and responseText is empty):

xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.open("GET","http://www.w3schools.com/XML/cd_catalog.xml", true);

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() 
{
  if(xmlhttp.readyState==4)
    alert("status " + xmlhttp.status);
}
xmlhttp.send();

It alerts "status 0".

The same situation with the localhost request (cd_catalog.xml is saved as a local file)

xmlhttp.open("GET","http://localhost/cd_catalog.xml", true);

But with the localhost IP request

xmlhttp.open("GET","http://127.0.0.1/cd_catalog.xml", true);

and with the local file request

xmlhttp.open("GET","cd_catalog.xml", true);

everything is OK (status 200)

What can cause the problem (status=0) with the online request?

PS: Live HTTP Headers shows that everything is OK in all 4 cases:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Length: 4742

PS2: Apache local web server on VMWare (host OS Win7, Guest OS Ubuntu, Network adapter – NAT). Browser – Firefox.