Post Data from a widget

[testbot]

Hi,

I'm trying to send POST data from a form to a site. I haven't been able to test if the POST data is being sent so i don't know if the problem is in my request or in the way the server parses the data. If anyone could help that'd be great.

 
<form action="javascript:widget.openURL('http://my.websites/url')" onSubmit="javascript:widget.openURL('http://my.websites/url')" method="post">      
        <input name="data[Visitors][keysearch]"  class="text_field3" tabindex="1" value="" type="text" id="VisitorsKeysearch" />
        <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="  SEARCH  " maxlength="63" id="Submit" class="srch_but" />
</form>

[jappit]

Hi testbot,

in order to send POST requests from a WRT widget, the best approach would be to use the XMLHttpRequest object, specifying "POST" as request method. You can find several examples on Forum Nokia Wiki, as this:

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...ith_JavaScript

specifically the update() function:

this.update = function(jsonObject){
var jsonString = JSON.stringify(jsonObject);
var self = this;
this.xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function(){
if (self.xmlhttp.readyState==4){
if (self.xmlhttp.status==200){
self.onUpdateSuccess.call(self,self.xmlhttp.responseText);
}else{
self.onUpdateError.call(self,self.xmlhttp.statusText);
}
}
}
this.xmlhttp.open("POST",this.resource_url,true);
this.xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
this.xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", jsonString.length);
this.xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
this.xmlhttp.send(jsonString);
}

Other related links:

http://www.devx.com/DevX/Tip/17500
http://www.openjs.com/articles/ajax_...using_post.php

Pit