POST values in Javascript

[Ryan Knopp]

Two questions.

1) Is there a way i can determine the page was a POST or a GET w/o
checking the "?" in the url?

2) Is there a way i can get the POST variables using javascript?
(example: like in php $_POST["name"] would have info if the page was
return as a post with a name field.)

[Evertjan.]

Ryan Knopp wrote on 09 jan 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

Two questions.

1) Is there a way i can determine the page was a POST or a GET w/o
checking the "?" in the url?

There is no reason why a page with post content cannot have a "?" and even
querystring content in the url.

2) Is there a way i can get the POST variables using javascript?

Yes, but only with serverside javascript,
as the post content in the header is not sent to the client.

I think.

(example: like in php $_POST["name"] would have info if the page was
return as a post with a name field.)

What PHP does with POSTed content is not on topic in this NG.

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[Randy Webb]

Evertjan. said the following on 1/9/2007 6:35 PM:

Ryan Knopp wrote on 09 jan 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

<snip>

>(example: like in php $_POST["name"] would have info if the page was
return as a post with a name field.)

What PHP does with POSTed content is not on topic in this NG.

And that isn't what was asked. It was being asked if client side JS has
any mechanism that is similar to any server side language where you have
access to POSTed variables. And whether client side JS has such a
feature *is* on topic here.

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[Evertjan.]

Randy Webb wrote on 10 jan 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

Evertjan. said the following on 1/9/2007 6:35 PM:

>Ryan Knopp wrote on 09 jan 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

<snip>

>>(example: like in php $_POST["name"] would have info if the page was
return as a post with a name field.)

What PHP does with POSTed content is not on topic in this NG.

And that isn't what was asked. It was being asked if client side JS has
any mechanism that is similar to any server side language where you have
access to POSTed variables. And whether client side JS has such a
feature *is* on topic here.

true

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[Bart Van der Donck]

Evertjan. wrote:

Ryan Knopp wrote on 09 jan 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

>2) Is there a way i can get the POST variables using javascript?

Yes, but only with serverside javascript,
as the post content in the header is not sent to the client.
I think.

It's true by definition. Posted content is part of a HTTP request from
browser to server. Server then returns a response for that request. An
application might be programmed to send posted data back to the
browser, but you can't do that in client-side javascript because the
javascript code itself is part of the response.

It's possible though to combine javascript and your favourite
serverside language to get posted data in a javascript variable when
the page is being generated, something like

print "<script>\n var postedata = '" + $_POST["name"] + "'\n</script>"
(beware of " \n \ etc)

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