[mod_python] 411 Length Required for POST

John Ruff jcruff at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 15:01:10 EST 2006


That was interesting b/c I just discovered that this works on  
Safari's browser, but not until I modified my code to xmlHttp.send 
('') did it work on Firefox.  Thanks very much.
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On Mar 3, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Deron Meranda wrote:

> On 3/3/06, John Ruff <jcruff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>      xmlHttp.open("POST", url, true);
>>      xmlHttp.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www- 
>> form-
>> urlencoded')
>>      xmlHttp.setRequestHeader('Content-length', '0');
>>      xmlHttp.send(null);
>
> You're not sending any body!  Even if there's nothing to
> send, try sending '' rather than null.  I'm guessing that the
> XMLHttpRequest implementation is just not sending a
> Content-Length if you send null.
>
> It's also very unusual to use application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> with POST's, but I guess you could.  Note thogh that in that case
> the "URL" should be in the request body, not the actual
> URL you're POSTing to.
> --
> Deron Meranda



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