How do I force or add the content length for ajax type POST requests in Firefox?
- by Jayson
I'm trying to POST a http request using ajax, but getting a response from the apache server using modsec_audit that: "POST request must have a Content-Length header." I do not want to disable this in modsec_audit.
This occurs only in firefox, and not IE. Further, I switched to using a POST rather than a GET to keep IE from caching my results.
This is a simplified version of the code I'm using for the request, I'm not using any javascript framework.
function getMyStuff(){
var SearchString = '';
/* build search string */
...
/* now do request */
var xhr = createXMLHttpRequest();
var RequestString = 'someserverscript.cfm' + SearchString;
xhr.open("POST", RequestString, true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
processResponse(xhr);
}
xhr.send(null);
}
function processResponse(xhr){
var serverResponse = xhr.responseText;
var container = document.getElementById('myResultsContainer');
if (xhr.readyState == 4){
container.innerHTML = serverResponse;
}
}
function createXMLHttpRequest(){
try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) {}
try { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) {}
try { return new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch(e) {}
return null;
}
How do I force or add the content length for ajax type POST requests in Firefox?
