[gameprogrammer] Re: POST in JSON format?
- From: Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:38:26 +0100
You cannot do JSON POST directly from forms.
The only way is via Ajax requests.
So you need to bind the click event for the "Ok" button to a JavaScript
function that calls the
server side with an Ajax call.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Kevin Jenkins <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Sorry for not being clear. I'm OK on the server side because I'm writing
> it in Java and am using json-lib to read the body of the post. But for
> testing I want to write a webpage that can do a POST from an HTML form
>
> <form>
> First name: <input type="text" name="firstname"><br>
> Last name: <input type="text" name="lastname"><br>
> <input type="submit" value="Submit">
> </form>
>
> With that code the body is not in JSON format. I was wondering if there
> was a simple way to make any form put the body in JSON format. Or lacking
> that, at least how to hand-craft it so that it is. I found some javascript
> code online but it didn't work, that is what I was alluding to.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Michael Croghan
> <mcroghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Didn't think about server side. :)
>>
>> One way half-a-dozen ways depending on what specifically you're trying to
>> do.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> btw... a sly trick i use sometimes when i have http questions of this
>>> sort is i'll go ask on the libcurl mailing list (shh)
>>>
>>> People tend not to consider it off topic, and they will actually think
>>> that you are trying to achieve something with libcurl (mostly i am,
>>> but not always) - and there's a lot of super knowledgeable people
>>> there with regards to this sort of thing.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > i think it partly depends on the server understanding your intentions
>>> > (ie apache vs IIS vs WCF even, are different if i recall correctly),
>>> > but the official content-type is "application/json" according to the
>>> > RFCs
>>> >
>>> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627
>>> >
>>> > doesn't do a lick of good if that doesn't work for you though (:
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Kevin Jenkins
>>> > <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> Does anyone know how to do an HTML form POST using JSON format? I
>>> searched
>>> >> online but couldn't find any clear explanations or source-code that
>>> actually
>>> >> worked.
>>>
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