ACTUALLY, it seems to be a mod_python bug, where it looks for an
explicit "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" string in the contentType
header instead of matching it with a regex. following that with any
charset afterwards caused the 501. so i guess a mod_python upgrade
will solve it. hopefully all the talking at myself here helps someone
else in the future :P

On Apr 4, 10:42 am, "TomH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I figured it out. The RC2 sets a default encoding on the request
> of UTF-8, where before the encoding wasn't being set at all. Setting
> encoding = null allowed the postBody to be sent as the key:value pair.
> I am guessing that the lack of an encoding type allows only ASCII
> characters, which is all the particular framework I am using allows at
> the moment.
>
> On Apr 3, 5:42 pm, "TomH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello, I've just spent a couple of hours playing with the new release
> > candidate of prototype, and I've noticed some odd behavior when using
> > Ajax.Request to post form data. I have a couple of example scripts
> > here:
>
> >http://www.straightnochaser.org/test/test.html-using RC2
>
> >http://www.straightnochaser.org/test/test.html-using 1.5.0
>
> > I know the onComplete doesn't totally work in the second example, but
> > that's not the issue. Open those URLs in firefox with firebug
> > installed, and take a look at the 'post' tab. You should see that is
> > sent as a query string in the first example, but as a key:value pair
> > in the second. I am entering the postBody into the options the same
> > way in both examples, and I took a look at the code of prototype
> > itself in both script versions, but I can't see any code that acts on
> > it differently in each. Why does it post differently? Did I not set a
> > new variable correctly?
>
> > The real reason I ask is that I am using prototype with a custom-built
> > python framework (not built by me) and most of the backend was written
> > to look for post varibles using the original key:value pairs, and it
> > now fails with the new method (error 501). It could be re-written, but
> > the time and cost would be less than ideal, so I would like to make
> > sure this is behavior-as-designed by prototype, and not a bug or
> > something. Though any info on how to fix this on the front-end would
> > be appeciated as well.
>
> > Thanks,
> > -Tom


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