AJAX error

[lakshmananindia]

Hai friends,

    I used AJAX for a simple project. In that I used the following statement.

 

xmlHttp.open("POST",edit_company_ajax.php+"?flag="+flag+"&user="+user_id,true);

xmlHttp.send(null);

 

    When I executed this code in my browser it is working fine. But when I executed the same in my friends system I got the following error message.

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    While trying to process the request:

    POST /~lakshmanan/13_deploy/Trainee_FinalProject_2007/lakshmanan_sathishkumar/bin/edit_company_ajax.php?id=1 HTTP/1.1

    Host: 192.168.1.12

    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1)

    Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive: 300

Proxy-Connection: keep-alive

Referer: http://192.168.1.12/~lakshmanan/13_deploy/Trainee_FinalProject_2007/lakshmanan_sathishkumar/bin/Edit_company.php

Cookie: PHPSESSID=334e96eccb310ebe8acc545ea626f122

Pragma: no-cache

Cache-Control: no-cache

The following error was encountered:

* Invalid Request

Some aspect of the HTTP Request is invalid. Possible problems:

* Missing or unknown request method

* Missing URL

* Missing HTTP Identifier (HTTP/1.0)

        * Request is too large

* Content-Length missing for POST or PUT requests

* Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed

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Now I changed my code to GET method.

xmlHttp.open("GET",edit_company_ajax.php+"?flag="+flag+"&user="+user_id,true);

xmlHttp.send(null);

 

Now it is working fine in my friends system.

I wanted to know why the problem occurred in my friends system and not in my system and the difference made by the GET and POST in both system?

pls help.

 

 

 

[Philip]

In POST, you need to send the data, not attach it to the url:

xmlHttp.open("POST",edit_company_ajax.php+"?flag="+flag+"&user="+user_id,true);
xmlHttp.send(null);

To this:

xmlHttp.open("POST","edit_company_ajax.php",true);
xmlHttp.send("flag="+flag+"&user="+user_id);

 

[lakshmananindia]

In POST, you need to send the data, not attach it to the url:

xmlHttp.open("POST",edit_company_ajax.php+"?flag="+flag+"&user="+user_id,true);
xmlHttp.send(null);

To this:

xmlHttp.open("POST","edit_company_ajax.php",true);
xmlHttp.send("flag="+flag+"&user="+user_id);

 

I know this already. But my question is why it differs across systems?

It worked in my system but not in my friends system.

 

[RichardRotterdam]

if any error occured it's most likely it wasn't the OS that caused it. It's probably the differences in the javascript engines.

If you think it is the OS then try running just the PHP script an both systems you will see it will run the same