No. In fact I never use the web2py ajax() function myself. It is there for 
legacy reasons. I use jQuery.ajax() almost every time.

On Friday, 16 September 2016 00:49:04 UTC-5, Przemysław Loesch wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if using plain javascript XMLHttpRequest object instead of 
> web2py ajax() can cause any problem or might be unsafe. The reason I've 
> decided to do so is that I need to pass the server response (json object) 
> to a js function as an argument.
> My js code looks like this:
> var query = document.getElementById('my-input-field').value;
> var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
> xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
>     if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
>         var arg = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
>         processArguments(arg);
>     }
> };
> xhttp.open("POST", "/myaapp/controler/function/"+query, true);
> xhttp.send();
>
> Previously I used web2py ajax() function with :eval argument and short js 
> code as the part of the response to be executed for calling js function. 
> Then I've found XHTMLHttpRequest object works as well and is even easier to 
> use when we want execute js code after server response. Now I'm just 
> curious if it has ane disadvantage comparing to web2py ajax() or jQuery 
> $.ajax().
> Thank you for your answer in advance.
> Przemek
>
>

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