André Warnier wrote:
To me thus, the "correct" way - and the only way a browser would do it
- to POST this data, would be in the form of a multipart/form-data
body, itself composed of a MIME header and a body that would be the
XML blob.
If I may:
function loadXMLDoc(xmlRequest) {
var xmlDoc;
xmlDoc = new window.XMLHttpRequest();
xmlDoc.open("POST", parent.serverURL, false);
xmlDoc.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/xml");
xmlDoc.setRequestHeader("Content-length",
xmlRequest.length);
xmlDoc.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
xmlDoc.send(xmlRequest);
return xmlDoc.responseXML;
}
(Yes, I know I'm doing doing the proper HTTP status return checks. This
is very rough code at the moment.)
I went with this for two reasons: one, it is absurdly simple and two,
there is no required encoding. If I want to send a blob of data, then
I'm going to send a blob of data. I saw a really simple, easy way out of
encoding (sometimes /very/) long strings into the proper urlencoded
form. I pass in an XML string, I get an XML string back - no extra
effort involved. Granted, the getParameter*() methods are there for a
reason. I just chose not to use them.
My point, is that it is entirely possible for a browser to POST data to
a resource without sending it as multipart/form-data or
application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
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