XMLHttpRequest post hangs on Firefox / Mozilla

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Jim Lawton - 30 Nov 2005 12:40 GMT

Hello, the following bit of (stripped down) code works fine in IE, but on Gecko
based browsers -
Firefox 1.0.7
Mozilla 1.7.12

it just hangs on the xmlhttpOpen

// IE object - works fine
// var xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

var xmlhttp =new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.Open("POST","http://www.anythin.com",false);

xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

xmlhttp.send("data");

I'd be grateful for any ideas.

Cheers
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Jim
a Yorkshire polymoth

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cicap - 30 Nov 2005 12:44 GMT

> Hello, the following bit of (stripped down) code works fine in IE, but on
> Gecko
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
>
> I'd be grateful for any ideas.

What is the problem?

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Martin Honnen - 30 Nov 2005 13:04 GMT

> var xmlhttp =new XMLHttpRequest();
> xmlhttp.Open("POST","http://www.anythin.com",false);

JavaScript is case sensitive so use
xmlhttp.open("POST", "url", false);
and I guess all is fine. Check the JavaScript console for error messages
if you still have problems. You need to be aware too that script in a
HTML document loaded via HTTP can with normal security settings only
connect back to the HTTP server the HTML document has been loaded from.

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Jim Lawton - 30 Nov 2005 13:42 GMT

>> var xmlhttp =new XMLHttpRequest();
>> xmlhttp.Open("POST","http://www.anythin.com",false);
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>HTML document loaded via HTTP can with normal security settings only
>connect back to the HTTP server the HTML document has been loaded from.

Yup - you got it. I was using Venkman, and developed blinkers. Because
everything was working fine in IE I was looking in the wrong place.

I'll have to pass the remote data through my "home" server.

Cheers, thanks for the help...
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Jim
a Yorkshire polymoth

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