I want a web page, which when a button is pressed, the browser navigates to a URL with method POST, and some xml data as the request content. The response will also be xml. My question is similar to JQuery AJAX Post - pass variable and navigate URL , but the answers to that question do an ajax POST, followed by navigation to a GET of the URL, whereas I want a direct navigation via POST.
What I have tried so far?
<html>
<head>
<title>Entry page</title>
<script src="js/lib/jquery/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script>
<script>
function LogIn() {
$.ajax({
url: "http://localhost:8080/Login/" + $( "#User" ).val(),
data: '<m:password xmlns:m="http://acme.com">' + $( "#Password" ).val() + "</m:password>",
method: 'POST',
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/xml",
dataType: "xml",
success :function()
{
alert('Ok');
window.location="http://localhost:8080/Login/" + $( "#User" ).val();
},
error : function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError){
console.log(xhr.status);
console.log(thrownError);
} });
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<label>User<input id="User" type="text" value="Sean" name="User"/></label>
<label>Password<input id="Password" type="password" name="Password"/></label>
</form>
<button onclick="LogIn()">Try it</button>
</body>
</html>
Cross Domain
I realise that this is cross domain. The server has been configured to allow this, and the cross-domain bit works perfectly well.
What is the issue?
The $.ajax() call simply invokes the POST, it doesn't navigate to it. Setting the window.location doesn't help, because this is a content-less GET, not a data-loaded POST.
Please advise.
