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[JavaScript] How to submit a POST param named 'submit' ?? - Traitor-Panda - Feb 2, 2013
Basically I need to (through javascript) create a post request with a parameter named "submit" (without quotes).
I've previously used a simple html form to generate post requests without any problems but it won't let me do a post request with a parameter named submit - obviously because it collides with the action called submit.
I've been trying to figure out how to do this for a few hours now but with no luck.
Anyone got a bright idea?
* - CarrotMilk - Feb 2, 2013
Erm, well, can't you just add this to the form?
Code
<input type="submit" name="submit"/>OR in your JS query string:
Code
var post = 'post=true';* - Traitor-Panda - Feb 2, 2013
(Feb 2, 2013 05:10 PM)CarrotMilk Wrote: Erm, well, can't you just add this to the form?
Code<input type="submit" name="submit"/>
That's the problem.
That's what I have now and it messes up as explained in:
http://www.spiration.co.uk/post/1232/Submit-is-not-a-function
However the parameter needs to be named "submit"
* - CarrotMilk - Feb 2, 2013
So what if the parameter needs to be named submit? It's no big deal, lol. There are a TON of ways to get around this. Show code, please.
* - Traitor-Panda - Feb 2, 2013
This is essentially my code (note that I placed in google.com because I can't reveal the real URL).
So essentially I want to post the parameter named submit.
How would I fix this?
Code
<script>
function post_to_url(path, params, method) {
method = method || "post";
var form = document.createElement("form");
form.id = 'formid';
form.setAttribute("method", method);
form.setAttribute("action", path);
for(var key in params) {
if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
var hiddenField = document.createElement("input");
hiddenField.setAttribute("type", "hidden");
hiddenField.setAttribute("name", key);
hiddenField.setAttribute("value", params[key]);
form.appendChild(hiddenField);
}
}
document.body.appendChild(form);
form.submit();
}
var paramz = [];
paramz['submit']='Submit';
post_to_url("http://google.com", paramz, "POST");
</script>* - CarrotMilk - Feb 2, 2013
I don't see why you're doing that. But then again, it's almost 2am. Why don't you just use a regular HTML form?
* - Traitor-Panda - Feb 2, 2013
(Feb 2, 2013 06:37 PM)CarrotMilk Wrote: I don't see why you're doing that. But then again, it's almost 2am. Why don't you just use a regular HTML form?
It is a html form - it's just being generated by javascript.
The function allows me to make custom post requests at will.
However it really has nothing to do with my original question - how would I post a parameter named "submit" ?
You said there'd be a TON of ways?
* - CarrotMilk - Feb 2, 2013
(Feb 2, 2013 06:43 PM)Traitor-Panda Wrote: It is a html form - it's just being generated by javascript.
The function allows me to make custom post requests at will.
However it really has nothing to do with my original question - how would I post a parameter named "submit" ?
You said there'd be a TON of ways?
Yes, a ton of ways to get around it. It's just incredibly weird the way you've done it, lol. Just failing to see the point; custom POST requests..? If that's the case, yuno AJAX? Or just HTML hidden fields (like you are doing in the JS)?
* - Traitor-Panda - Feb 3, 2013
(Feb 2, 2013 06:44 PM)CarrotMilk Wrote: Yes, a ton of ways to get around it. It's just incredibly weird the way you've done it, lol. Just failing to see the point; custom POST requests..? If that's the case, yuno AJAX? Or just HTML hidden fields (like you are doing in the JS)?
I can't use AJAX since I need to use the users credentials and not the servers credentials.
With javascript the users IP&cookies are being used while with AJAX they're not.
Trust me the only way seems to be the way I'm doing it - I just need to know how to handle the "submit" issue.
EDIT: Got it fixed now.
As CarrotMilk suggested I created a submit button through html and merely invoked a click on the page load.
Works brilliantly.