Bob Ippolito wrote:
- That's all we (as in the sponsors/developers of MochiKit) need right now
- The support for anything but GET and POST is poor cross-browser (this
is largely Safari's fault)
- There are at least three common ways to send POST data (url encoded,
JSON, and XML)
- It's often the case that you would also like to set custom headers
when doing something other than GET
Well, I think there's at least one obvious implementation would be
symmetric with doSimpleXMLHttpRequest, like:
function postSimpleXMLHttpRequest(url/*, ...*/) {
var self = MochiKit.Async;
var req = self.getXMLHttpRequest();
var postBody = ''
if (arguments.length > 1) {
postBody = m.queryString.apply(null, m.extend(null,
arguments, 1));
}
req.open("POST", url, true);
req.setRequestHeader(
'Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
return self.sendXMLHttpRequest(req, postBody);
}
That's the only kind of non-GET request I've needed so far, and the only
kind I expect to need for some time. I can imagine a JSON body, but I
personally I don't need it, and I think a normal POST request is
generally more likely to be useful.
While it didn't take me long to figure this out on my own, it also
wasn't entirely obvious. I think this would cover 80% of all POST
requests (and probably much more than that; it covers 100% of all the
POSTs I've needed ;).
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Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org
