Hi Mike,
Unfortunately no I can't post a link, the site is private and contains
lots of sensitive user data.
I observe request using FF's firebug. As I said, using GET will change
the content-type to whatever I specify. When using POST, the content-
type may change but the charset part will not.
For example, if I specify
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-type','application/x-www-form-
urlencoded;charset=windows-1253');
firebug will show the content-type to be
Content-Type : application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
I tried using the form plugin and doing ajaxSubmit rather than $.ajax,
but still the charset remains UTF-8.
Is this normal JS behaviour?
Thanks
Nicolas
On Jan 24, 3:14 am, Mike Alsup <mal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I need some help here guys.
> > > I'm trying to modify the content-type and accept-charsetrequest
> > > headers of an ajax call and it seems that beforeSend does not really
> > > change the XHR object.
>
> > > My code is something like this:
> > > beforeSend : function(xhr) {
> > >
> > > xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept-Charset','windows-1253');
> > >
> > > xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-type','application/x-www-form-
> > > urlencoded;charset=windows-1253')
> > > }
>
> > > I need the charset to be windows-1253 and not UTF-8, as the database
> > > and everything in between (server side scripts) are encoded with
> > > windows-1253.
>
> > > My html page has the correct charset specified:
> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> > > charset=windows-1253" />
> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript;
> > > charset=windows-1253" />
>
> > > If I submit the form without ajax, the charset is ok and my data is
> > > saved correctly. Otherwise non-latin characters are replaced with
> > > weird characters. From what I understand, changing the charset &
> > > encoding to UTF-8 is currently not an option.
>
> > > Any suggestions? Is this a jquery bug or I'm I doing something wrong?
> > It seems that when I use GET instead of POST, the content type header
> > is correctly changed to what I specify.
>
> > But even so, this is not a stable fix as I want to POST.
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Can you post a link to a page that shows this behavior? How are you
> observing the outgoing request headers?
>
> Mike
