On Feb 10, 7:37 am, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > PJ <pauljeffer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I have a simple web server using BaseHTTPServer, and the def do_POST > >(self) function works fine for regular forms that are submitted to it, > >but when I send anAJAXPOST to it it does nothing (I've tried to just > >get it to print to check it's nothing else but it doesn't even do > >that, although it does for a regular POST request. > > Are you absolutely sure yourAJAXrequest is being sent with Content-Type > multipart/form-data? Your code would explode silently if it didn't, > because "query" would not exist when you got to "print(query.get('data'))", > and your blanket "except" would hide the error. > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Thankyou for that - you're right - I'm new to AJAX so it's taking me a bit of time to get used to it - its an application data type being submitted -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list