How to similate HTTP POST request by JavaScript?

[reneeccwest]

How can I simulate HTTP post request by JavaScript?

When I select from <SELECT> combo box. onClick will call JavaScript
function.
I want this function to send HTTP POST request with the selected index of
the combo box.
To do this, somehow the function must simulate HTTP POST request.

Thanks in advance.

[Evertjan.]

Re: How to similate HTTP POST request by JavaScript?

Richard Hockey wrote on 07 jul 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:
[color=blue]
> I'm not sure you can 'simulate' a HTTP post request, but you can
> submit a form using javascript to set the method, and to execute from
> submission (you can also set the action and target window):
>
> document.forms['myform'].method='post';
> document.forms['myform'].action='proces s.php';
> document.froms['myform'].target='_self' ;
> document.forms['myform'].submit();
>[/color]

You are right.

It is not simulating a post http-request,

but simulating a classical HTTP-only post request.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Martin Honnen]

Re: How to similate HTTP POST request by JavaScript?



reneeccwest wrote:[color=blue]
> How can I simulate HTTP post request by JavaScript?
>
> When I select from <SELECT> combo box. onClick will call JavaScript
> function.
> I want this function to send HTTP POST request with the selected index of
> the combo box.
> To do this, somehow the function must simulate HTTP POST request.[/color]

Why don't you use HTML?
<form action="whateve r.php" method="POST">
<select name="selectNam e">
<option>...</option>
<option>...</option>
...
</select>
<input type="submit">
</form>

The browser will send a HTTP POST request when the submit button is
clicked/pressed without needing any script.

--

Martin Honnen

http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Stuart Palmer]

Re: How to similate HTTP POST request by JavaScript?

<form name="MyForm" action="nextpag e.asp" method="POST">
<select name="selectNam e" onChange="docum ent.MyForm.subm it">
<option>make a selection</option>
<option value = "one">one</option>
<option value = "two">two</option>
...
</select>
<input type="submit">
</form>


try something like this. Onclick is wrong because as soon as you click it
would send, without you chnaging anything.

Keep a submit button available for non JS users.

Does that help? If not, let us see some code and tell us exactly what you
want it to do.

Stu


"reneeccwes t" <reneeccwest@ho tmail.com> wrote in message
news:9f9d6d21.0 307062128.279dd 614@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> How can I simulate HTTP post request by JavaScript?
>
> When I select from <SELECT> combo box. onClick will call JavaScript
> function.
> I want this function to send HTTP POST request with the selected index of
> the combo box.
> To do this, somehow the function must simulate HTTP POST request.
>
> Thanks in advance.[/color]