All,
[ I got called out of the office for about an hour and didn't get to
send this].
Oliver,
I'll remember that for the future. I have solved the problem.
Suspecting the formdata content was suspect I hardcoded a simple
request, e.g.,
formdata = 'foo=bar'; // no failure
Then I looked to see if the .serialize() command was the culprit. It
wasn't.
Then I looked at each of the values I was appending to formdata and
everything worked until appended last_update_by.
Doh!
The simple fix was to escape() all of the Collaborator.data variables.
var formdata;
formdata = $("#collaborator_choice_mgmt").serialize();
formdata += '&id=' + escape(Collaborator.data.id);
formdata += '&version=' + escape(Collaborator.data.version);
formdata += '&last_update_by=' +
escape(Collaborator.data.last_update_by);
I realized that the reason similar code hadn't failed in the past
was that I would often put the data that I now have in an object
into hidden form variables. As a result .serialize() would handle
the encoding for me. I've always used .serialize out of convenience.
Others have suggested other ways to do this with the bare .ajax( )
call and passing form data as on {object} instead of a parameter
string. I'll look into that for the future.
Thanks,
-- Brad
On 3/16/11 9:45 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> In this cases it did help me, to analyze the request with HttpFox.
> https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/httpfox/
>
> Regards, Oliver
>
> Am 16.03.2011 um 16:16 schrieb Brad Perkins:
>
>> On 3/16/11 9:10 AM, Brad Perkins wrote:
>>> This is more of a Javascript question, but I have used similar code
>>> when working with PHP backends and haven't had problems. Active4D is
>>> responding with a 400 Bad Request.
>>>
>>> I'm using the following JS function to submit a POST xmlHTTPRequest
>>> to Active4D. I've removed some code for illustration purposes, but
>>> have tested with code below and it fails too.
>>>
>>> I suspect that Active4D doesn't like how formdata is formatted. Here
>>> is an example formdata value that fails:
>>>
>>> |short_name_menu=NOAA&short_name=NOAA&full_name=National+Oceanic+and+Atmospheric+Administration&url=http||%3A%2F%2Fwww.noaa.gov&assoc_natl_lab_acronym=&id=1001&version=1&last_update_by=Brad
>>> Perkins|
>> For clarification, I copy/pasted the above from Firebug. Firebug
>> doesn't display the | characters that came across in this message.
>> When I paste the same code into various text editors I'm not seeing
>> those |'s as either literal or invisible characters.
>>
>> -- Brad
>>
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