XMLHttpRequest always sends as GET - javascript

So I wrote an AJAX js library a while ago (a simple one) and today I suddenly noticed it wasn't working anymore.
Now, I've ripped some of the code out of it and manually put it into a script to test it. Again, it's not working correctly. I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out why?
This is the javascript code:
Now here, the first one works and the second one doesn't...
$loginBtn.on("click", function() {
if(validateForm($loginForm))
{
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.open("POST", "/login/login/", true);
xhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xhttp.send("fname=Henry&lname=Ford");
var url = $loginForm.attr('action');
var params = "username=foo&password=bar";
var xhttp2 = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp2.open('POST', url, true);
xhttp2.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
xhttp2.send(params);
}
return false;
});
The end goal is to do this with formData(), but i'm going back to basics to see what's going wrong here.
The thing is, that even though the XMLHttpRequest DOES fire, it seems to completely ignore everything I set for it.
The headers return as a GET while I'm setting it to POST, the content-type I set is nowhere to be seen. No matter what header I add, it's not being added.
It just sends a GET for no apparent reason. The call in itself is succesful and gives the appropriate response, though.
things I've tried so far;
checked any type of caching and made sure I'm not using cached scripts
stripped away all extra functions to make sure there is nothing else going wrong
Made sure there is no server-side caching of any kind
Disabled all other scripts for testing reasons.

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I'm doing an API call to the Insightly API using this code:
var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
x.open("GET", "https://api.insight.ly/v2.2/Projects/Search?status=in%20progress&brief=false&count_total=false", true);
x.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Basic: 'some-basic-key-and-user');
x.send();
console.log(x.status);
but the responsecode output equals 0
I've tried my URL and AuthKey using hurl.it's tool, and it gives back exactly the response I need. I've also tried x.statusText and x.Response
How come my script doesn't give me the output I need?
EDIT:
After trying adding those parameters from Mozilla's documentation (thank you Amy). I still don't get the correct response code.
My code now:
var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
x.open("GET", "https://api.insight.ly/v2.2/Projects/Search?status=in%20progress&brief=false&count_total=false", true);
x.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Basic: b4c6c660-e20f-4f31-b90d-b6a11bfe4ef2');
x.onprogress = function () {
console.log('LOADING', x.status);
};
x.onload = function () {
console.log('DONE', x.status);
};
x.send();
console.log(x.status);
The response code:
0
LOADING 0
Also I've read through the possible answer, and I still don't know how to fix my mistake, I know why it is asynchronous and why it doesn't work this way, but I don't know how to fix.
First of all, you have unnecessary quote symbol on row 3 (right after some-basic-key-and-user).
Second is that insight api doesn't support cross origin resource sharing (CORS for short).
You might want to introduce some proxy on the same domain you query data from.

POST data with ajax

I'm trying to save a few lines of text in a textarea with ajax targeting a classic asp file.
I'm not sure how to use ajax when when it comes to sending data with POST method and NOT using jQuery, didn't find any questions concerning this here either, no duplicate intended.
Ajax function:
function saveDoc() {//disabled
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
var note = document.getElementById("note");
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("0").innerHTML = xhttp.responseText;
}
};
xhttp.open("POST", "saveNote.asp", true);
xhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xhttp.send(note);
ASP Classic:
set fs=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set f=fs.OpenTextFile("c:\inetasp\1.txt",8,true)
dim note
note = RequestForm("note")
f.Write(note)
f.Close
Response.Write("Works.");
set f=nothing
set fs=nothing
I'm aware there might be a lot wrong with the .asp since i couldn't find any specific info about how to handle ajax requests with Classic ASP correctly.
Any suggestions on how to make this work without jQuery are welcome.
I cannot test your code as I don't have a backend running on my machine right now. But I can already tell you a few things:
you are calling xhttp.send(note); but your note is a DOM element. It should be a string with a querystring format.
in your server side code you call RequestForm is it a custom function you have previously defined ? The usual syntax is Request.Form
Hope it can help

cannot manipulate response from xmlHttpRequest 2

I'm using XHR 2 to upload/save files.
According to the response of the server I want to perform an action. For example if the responce is "Saved" I want to hide a div or if the response is "Not Saved" I want to show another div etc...
I implemented what appears to be a simple code that should be working , but is not
Here is the snippet of the XHR
//initialize
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', 'upload.php');
xhr.responseType="text";
xhr.onload = function() {
//if all ok....
if (xhr.status === 200)
{
//update html5 progress bar
progress.value = progress.innerHTML = 100;
//get the respnse
var data=xhr.response;
//convert it to sting - kind of overkill, I know, but I'm stack
var data2=data.toString();
//alert it -- works
alert('data2 '+data2);
//now, do something, according to the response -- NOT working, never alert anything
if (data2=="Not Saved"){alert('Ooops, not saved');}
if(data2=="Saved"){alert('It's all good');}
if(data2=="File too big"){alert('hey, you are watching Jake and Amir');}
document.getElementById('imagesaved').innerHTML=data;
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//refers to if (xhr.status === 200)
else {document.getElementById("imagesaved").innerHTML="Connect to server failed";}
What is wrong here? This should be working right? Any suggestions?
Thanks
EDIT
I put the alerts for testing. What I actually want to do is call some functions.
If I put
if (data2=="Not Saved"){functionOne();}
if(data2=="Saved"){functionTwo();}
if(data2=="File too big"){functionThree();}
the functions never get called
if I put
if (data2!="Not Saved"){functionOne();}
if(data2!="Saved"){functionTwo();}
if(data2!="File too big"){functionThree();}
ALL the functions are called!!!
I still dont get it...Maybe its something with the response? Or the onload function?
Thanks again
What I finally did is make the server response with numbers, not text. So encoding does not matter any more...
This is the code
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onload = function() {
if (xhr.status == 200)
{
var data=xhr.response;
if(data==1)
//say to the user is saved
{document.getElementById('imagesaved').innerHTML="Saved";}
//say to the user, there was an error
else{document.getElementById('imagesaved').innerHTML="Error";}
}
//say to the user that connection to the server failed
else {document.getElementById("imagesaved").innerHTML="Cannot connect";}
};
xhr.open('POST', 'upload.php');
xhr.send(formData);
This is a workaround. I dont know if its the right way to solve this problem , technically. I decided to post it anyway, to help others to quickly solve similar problems. If anyboy else has a better way to suggest , please do.
In this line : if(data2=="Saved"){alert('It's all good');}, you have to escape " ' ".
So convert it to : if(data2=="Saved"){alert('It\'s all good');}
Are you sure that the response of your ajax is text/plain ?
Look on the console (ctrl+shift+i on chrome, F12 on firefox), on net or network tab.
Look on console tab if you got some javascript errors too.

Ajax Function Only Working Part of the Time

I am using the following Ajax function format:
var xmlhttp;
function addAddress(str)
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200)
{
//specific selection text
document.getElementById('info').innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}
var addAddress = "add";
xmlhttp.open("POST", "sys.php", true);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
var queryString = "&addAddress=" + addAddress;
xmlhttp.send(queryString);
}
function GetXmlHttpObject()
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
return new XMLHttpRequest();
}
if (windows.ActiveXObject)
{
return new ActiveXObject("Micorsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
return null;
}
Up until now, all of my Ajax functions, like the one above, have been running fine. However, now the function will work only sometimes. Now, sometimes I will have to click the onclick event a couple times to execute the function or the function will just hang, and then after about 4 minutes it will execute.
I tested parts of the function and found that the issue lies some where at the:
if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200)
{
alert(xmlhttp.status);
//specific selection text
document.getElementById('info').innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
}
When the function works, I can alert(xmlhttp.status) and get 200. However, when it's not working, the alert box doesn't even trigger. In fact, nothing happens, not even an error.
Could this be a server issue? I am kind of thinking my website got hacked, but I cannot find any issues accept that the Ajax functions are not executing properly.
Lastly, I do not get this problem on my localhost, it's only happening on the live website.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
First just confirm that the addAddress function is actually being called when you click the button or control that should trigger it.
Just a simple alert in the first line like this would work:
function addAddress(str)
{
alert('addAddress has been called!')
....
}
If you don't get the alert, make sure there isn't a javascript error on the page that is preventing the function from running. In firefox you press CTRL+SHIFT+J to see the error console for example.
If that part is working, trying putting the URL for the ajax request directly into your browser and diagnose it that way.
Looks like you are requesting this url with ajax:
sys.php&addAddress= (address goes here)
Check that the page will load directly in your browser. If not, the problem is not the ajax request, but something with the sys.php page itself - which you can then drill down on.
Hope that helps!
This wasn't the answer I was expecting, but I ended up having my web host (GoDaddy) change servers, and that resolved the problem. For almost a year, I was running IIS7 with PHP. Since I had never run into any problems, I just continued using that server. After the Ajax latency issue and not being able to figure out a solution, I figured I would just switch over to Apache. After the change, everything started running smoothly again.
I am thinking maybe there was a software update that I was not notified about. Or, maybe my website was getting hit with a DDoS, which was decreasing the performance of my Ajax requests. Lastly, maybe someone got into IIS and changed a setting. I don't know, all I know is that the minute the server was changed over to Apache was when the website started running normally again.
Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

Problem with making a simple JS XmlHttpRequest call

Edit: Maybe I made the question more complex than it should. My questions is this: How do you make API calls to a server from JS.
I have to create a very simple client that makes GET and POST calls to our server and parses the returned XML. I am writing this in JavaScript, problem is I don't know how to program in JS (started to look into this just this morning)!
As n initial test, I am trying to ping to the Twitter API, here's the function that gets called when user enters the URL http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.xml and hits the submit button:
function doRequest() {
var req_url, req_type, body;
req_url = document.getElementById('server_url').value;
req_type = document.getElementById('request_type').value;
alert("Connecting to url: " + req_url + " with HTTP method: " + req_type);
req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open(req_type, req_url, false, "username", "passwd");// synchronous conn
req.onreadystatechange=function() {
if (req.readyState == 4) {
alert(req.status);
}
}
req.send(null);
}
When I run this on FF, I get a
Access to restricted URI denied" code: "1012
error on Firebug. Stuff I googled suggested that this was a FF-specific problem so I switched to Chrome. Over there, the second alert comes up, but displays 0 as HTTP status code, which I found weird.
Can anyone spot what the problem is? People say this stuff is easier to use with JQuery but learning that on top of JS syntax is a bit too much now.
For security reasons, you cannot use AJAX to request a file from a different domain.
Since your Javascript isn't running on http://api.twitter.com, it cannot request files from http://api.twitter.com.
Instead, you can write server-side code on your domain to send you the file.

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