Re: XHR giving 405

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject	Re: XHR giving 405
Date	Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:43:15 +0200
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> I've been working with what's called the TinCan library from Rustici
> Software to track some elearning courses. At around line 1,730 there's
> this for browsers that don't support (what they've called) XDomainRequest:
> 
> if (pairs.length > 0) {
>    fullUrl += "/?" + pairs.join("&");
> }
> 
> When I'm POSTing, pairs length is zero and so URL doesn't have a
> trailing slash. I changed their code to
> 
> fullUrl += "/";
> if (pairs.length > 0) {
>    fullUrl += "?" + pairs.join("&");
> }
> 
> and POSTing now works.

It is strange software where the trailing slash in a URI is necessary.

Do they encodeURIComponent() the elements of “pairs” before join()ing it?

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XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-31 15:34 +1000
  Re: XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-31 16:45 +1000
    Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-31 09:58 +0200
    Re: XHR giving 405 Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2014-08-01 11:20 -0700
  Re: XHR giving 405 JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2014-07-31 14:20 +0700
    Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-03 00:08 +0200
      Re: XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-03 15:10 +1000
        Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-03 09:43 +0200
          Re: XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-03 19:16 +1000
            Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-03 19:16 +0200
              Re: XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-04 07:29 +1000
      Re: XHR giving 405 John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-08-03 16:46 +0100
        Re: XHR giving 405 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-08-03 16:51 +0100
        Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-03 18:39 +0200
          Re: XHR giving 405 John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-08-04 15:08 +0100
            Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-04 19:12 +0200
              Re: XHR giving 405 John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-08-06 14:25 +0100
                Re: XHR giving 405 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-06 20:20 +0100
                Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-07 21:13 +0200

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