PK you need to tell the server you're posting JSON in content-type for instance using $.ajax
var somedict = {a: 1, b: 2}; $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "{{=URL()}}", dataType: "json", /* if the server is also replying with json*/ contentType: "application/json; charset=UTF-8", data: JSON.stringify(somedict), success: function (data) { } }); Doing this you will have somedict in request.vars, for instance request.vars.a will be 1 -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.