Well, I solved the problem, but not by using getJSON. Here's the solution, in case it's helpful to anyone else. I found a page that lists a fourth undocumented (according to them--didn't have time to verify) parameter of $.post(), and that is the data type.
http://thecodecentral.com/2007/11/20/the-missing-parameter-of-jquerypost I changed getJSON to post, specified the datatype as "json," changed request.querystring to request.form in the asp file, and it worked. I may never know why the other one didn't work, but thank goodness this one is working. Cheers, Kathryn On Apr 13, 4:14 pm, Kathryn <kathry...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I must be making an obvious mistake, but I can't see it. I'm > trying to pass additional data to the server with getJSON, but it's > not working. > > Here's my function: > > $(document).ready(function() { > $('#submit_uid').click(function() { > $.getJSON('pwreset_proc.asp',{check_type: 'verify_uid', uid: $ > ('#uid').val(), ajax: 'true'}, function(json){ > alert(json); > }); > }); > > }); > > Here's the form, with the button referenced in the click function: > > <form method="post" name="enter_uid"> > ID: <input name="uid" id="uid" type="text"> > <input name="submit_uid" id="submit_uid" type="button" value="Submit"> > </form> > > Here's the code in pwreset_proc.asp: > > dim check_type, uid > check_type = request.QueryString("check_type") > uid = request.QueryString("uid") > (this is followed by an SQL query that uses the passed data) > > When I click Submit, the form just fails quietly. > > To see if the problem was in the asp page, I hard coded the variables, > and the page works fine. So then I tried the asp code above followed > by > response.write(check_type) > response.end() > > and the page came up blank. So it appears that the data is not being > passed from the form to the asp page. > > The thing is, I have used a similar function on another page and it > works fine. The only difference is that it's attached to the change > event of a dropdown rather than the click event of a button. What am I > missing??? > > Thanks! > > Kathryn
