[gameprogrammer] Re: POST in JSON format?
- From: Kevin Jenkins <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:06:12 -0800
Thanks for these helpful responses.
Michael, does index.php have to be php, or can I use index.html so I can
test on my local system? From the code I think you are submitting the form
to itself, then running PHP to add the two header fields? There's no way to
do this with javascript?
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Michael Croghan
<mcroghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> simple example with jQuery
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
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