Re: XMLHttpRequest post hangs on Firefox / Mozilla
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Re: XMLHttpRequest post hangs on Firefox / Mozilla

From: Jim Lawton <usenet1@jimlawton.TAKEOUTinfo>
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 14:42:59 CET

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:04:39 +0100, Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote:

>
>
>Jim Lawton wrote:
>
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>> var xmlhttp =new XMLHttpRequest();
>> xmlhttp.Open("POST","http://www.anythin.com",false);
>
>JavaScript is case sensitive so use
> xmlhttp.open("POST", "url", false);
>and I guess all is fine. Check the JavaScript console for error messages
>if you still have problems. You need to be aware too that script in a
>HTML document loaded via HTTP can with normal security settings only
>connect back to the HTTP server the HTML document has been loaded from.

Yup - you got it. I was using Venkman, and developed blinkers. Because
everything was working fine in IE I was looking in the wrong place.

I'll have to pass the remote data through my "home" server.

Cheers, thanks for the help...

--
Jim
a Yorkshire polymoth
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:33:30 2005