Thank you very much for the response. I did as you suggested and checked my logs for both a regular post (with full form submit and page load) and the ajax post, unfortunately, the logs didn't show anything conclusive - the URLs in both cases are logged unaltered and seem to be coming through just fine.
At this point, so I can move past this, I will likely dynamically format the post data into the URL of the ajax request and use the GET method. None of my forms submit much data. Non-optimum, but workable. Thanks, Micheal On Dec 3, 6:17 am, Kevin Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mhall wrote: > > Hi all, first post. > > > I'm in the processing of learning javascript and jQuery. I have a CGI > > application that I have written and have been using in my business for > > several years. It's written in a rather obscure CGI language called > > WebBatch. Why? Well, because it's what I knew at the time I started > > the project. :) > > > Anyway, one of the interesting things about that language is the > > structure of its URLs - it isn't simply the path to a script in a cgi > > directory, it's a path to the WebBatch executable with the script to > > execute embedded in the query string after it like so: > > >http://atlas/webcgi/webbatch.exe?ordersys-dev/login.web > > > I mention that as I am having problems with the POST method in Ajax. I > > can use the GET method just fine and load files and run scripts using > > GET all day long, but I can't get any results when attempting to use > > post - the script itself never executes on the server (I have a test > > script that just writes out to a log file when it runs so that I can > > see if it is executing). > > > Is there a chance that the unusual structure of the URLs presents an > > issue with the POST method? I'm grasping at straws here as I've been > > over everything for hours and can't think out anything else unusual > > about what I'm trying to do or how I'm trying to do it. > > > Does that sound like it could even remotely be a source of the > > problem, or do you figure I am completely off base? > > > This is the ajax call as I have it formatted currently: > > > $.ajax({ > > type: "POST", > > url: "//atlas/webcgi/webbatch.exe?ordersys-dev/login-ajax.web", > > data: '"username=' + elem.form.username.value + '&password=' + > > elem.form.password.value + '"', > > success: function(msg){ > > alert( "Data Saved: " + msg ); > > } > > }); > > > Thanks for any thoughts! > > Micheal > > What you're trying to do here is both a GET and a POST in the same > query. Webbatch expects a raw QUERY_STRING as the > script to execute and the data in POST_DATA (or whatever it's called). > Check your web logs. Is jquery stripping the GET part > from the URL? Certainly the server side can handle combined GET and > POST, I've done it myself due to restrictions in certain > frameworks.
