在不使用表单的情况下单击链接时发送POST数据？

Question

I have some regular anchor tag links on my page that open up a popup window which displays whatever GET data I pass through the url:

<a href="javascript:window.open('view.php?data=a%20bunch%20of%20data');">View</a>

Some of this data is really long, and my crappy web host has a very small limit on the size of the GET data that can be passed in a url. Is there a way to do this with POST data instead, without using html forms?

Answer 1

you could also use an XMLHttpRequest

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_http.asp