Add processData option to JQuery post

Reported by:	aagrawal	Owned by:
Priority:	low	Milestone:
Component:	ajax	Version:	1.4.2
Keywords:	post,processData,request-body,ajaxrewrite	Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

It's common for web services to expect data to be POSTed in the request body and not as URL parameters. This cannot be done via $.post right now, so you have to resort to using $.ajax with type 'POST'.

This option should be added to $.post

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Change History (5)

Changed June 15, 2010 01:28AM UTC by dmethvin comment:1

component:	unfiled → ajax

Changed October 25, 2010 12:26AM UTC by rwaldron comment:2

keywords:	→ post processData request-body
milestone:	1.4.3
priority:	→ low
status:	new → open

See: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/

Find: processData

This might be a useful feature to extend to the $.post() shorthand

Changed December 27, 2010 10:37PM UTC by rwaldron comment:3

keywords:	post processData request-body → post,processData,request-body,ajaxrewrite

Changed January 09, 2011 05:55AM UTC by jaubourg comment:4

Maybe there's something I don't get but there is no correlation between appending data to the url and processData. ProcessData only indicates the data needs to be url-encoded IF and WHEN it is not a string. If you pass a string to $.post() as your data parameter then it WILL be sent in the request body. Are we sure we're not dealing with a request that cannot be dealt with using a POST and hence end up being dealed with as a GET (cross-domain jsonp & script notably).

Changed April 16, 2011 08:38PM UTC by john comment:5

resolution:	→ worksforme
status:	open → closed

Yeah, this is quite confusing - if a POST is happening then it should be in the post body, please create a new ticket with a test case if this is not the case.

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