You'll need to grab the token on the server side - see line 1065 of prototype_helper.rb for more detail.
But before you do that, you may want to take a look at the rest of PrototypeHelper; what you're doing looks to be well-covered by the methods already available, which could save you a lot of low-level AJAX hackery. --Matt Jones On Jul 27, 6:41 am, JannaB <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, wait, I need to pass the parameter of the authenticity_token to > the url. How can I do this? -Janna > > On Jul 24, 10:18 am, bill walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 05:09 -0700, JannaB wrote: > > > it is posting somewhere and I believe that because in firefox, > > > the error concole is clean. > > > The console tab in the Firebug plugin is what you want to be looking at. > > It will tell you if / where your app is making requests and the > > parameters it's passing. > > > HTH, > > Bill > > > > Can someone tell me from my js below where I am > > > posting, or why my controller method isnt getting the post? Thanks, > > > Janna B > > > > //this function is getting called by an onchange in the associates > > > select > > > function assocchange(therow){ > > > var s = document.getElementById("assoc"+therow).value; > > > var url = "/channels/assocboxchange/" > > > var parameters = "assoc=" + escape(encodeURI(s)) + "&id=" + therow; > > > formid="assoc" + therow; > > > makePOSTRequest(url, parameters, formid) > > > } > > > > function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters, formid){ > > > req3 = new XMLHttpRequest(); > > > if (req3) { > > > req3.onreadystatechange = alertContents(formid); > > > req3.open('POST', url, true); > > > req3.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form- > > > urlencoded"); > > > req3.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length); > > > req3.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close"); > > > req3.send(parameters); > > > } > > > } > > > > function alertContents(formid) { > > > if (req3.readyState == 4) { > > > if (req3.status == 200) { > > > result = req3.responseText; > > > document.getElementById("'"+formid+"'").innerHTML = > > > result; > > > } else { > > > alert('There was a problem with the request.'); > > > } > > > } > > > } --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
