POSTing with the builtin ajax functions?

ithcy · April 2006

i'm thinking it's not possible, but is it?
i would like to ajax some data to a php script via POST instead of GET.

ithcy · April 2006

nevermind, i modified ajax.js to handle POSTs, but it didn't help me anyway

ithcy · April 2006

actually it does exactly what i want it to do.
hey Mark, i know you hate javascript, so if you're interested, i changed the LoadData function in DataManager in js/ajax.js with this:

	this.LoadData = function(DataSource,postVars) {
		if(undefined === postVars) postVars = false;
		// Debug
		// document.location = DataSource;
		var Request = this.InitiateXmlHttpRequest();
		if (Request != null) {
			try {
				Request.onreadystatechange = this.CreateDataHandler(Request);
				if(!postVars)
				{
					Request.open("GET", DataSource, true);
					Request.send(null);
				} else {
					Request.open("POST", DataSource, true);
					Request.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
					Request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", postVars.length);
					Request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
					Request.send(postVars);
				}
			} catch(oc) {
				alert(oc);
			}
		}
	}

that way it doesn't break any part of the site that's already using ajax, and it allows POSTing by calling it with post variables (i.e. "s=some%20urlencoded%data") as the second argument.

Mark · April 2006

I'd say instead of altering the Vanilla js, just write your own version of the DataManager (named something else, of course) and include/use that on your pages. That way you will get all of the functionality you want, and it won't conflict with vanilla's js code.

I just spent the entire evening going through all of Vanilla's javascript changing stuff. I don't feel like going back into the woods right about now, sorry

POSTing with the builtin ajax functions?

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