I want to get reponse data send by a Jetty Server via POST within a Greasemonkey script.
New data is send every few seconds.
How can I directly access the data, that is displayed in Firebug "Network" tab as response data?
(I tried to get the data with solutions provided here that make use of jQuery and ajaxSuccess, but that did not work. And I am not sure if the POST data is returned from an jQuery ajax request. So is there a way to directly access the POST "stream").
The best way depends highly on details that you've not (yet) provided:
Exactly how does the page send and receive the information. Is it really form posts, or is it AJAX? If AJAX, is jQuery involved? Pages can post without AJAX; are iframes involved?
Link to the target page.
What does the page do with the information? Does it update displays?
What is your ultimate reason for wanting the information? Most of the time, it's easier not to try and intercept -- and parse -- AJAX. Usually, monitoring the DOM tree is much easier and more robust way of getting what you want.
If the page displays the data, you want, to the user, the best way to get it is shown in "How can I detect AJAX node insertion...".
If you really want to intercept the data:
Intercepting jQuery AJAX from Greasemonkey.
Intercepting any target-page AJAX from Greasemonkey.
Intercepting AJAX, bare bones.
If the page is submitting forms, creating iframes, etc., POST DETAILS. But in general, you would replace the javascript function that is receiving (and/or sending) the data.
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I have an ingredient form and I want the user to type only the name and then the carb, protein and fat get automatically loaded. I know I need an ajax request but I don't know the path to learn how to accomplish this.
Can anyone gives an example or tell me where I can find it?
Learn Jquery too. Jquery is a widely used Javascript library and you will find a lot of help too.
Coming back to the question, $ajax method will be used to send an ajax request from your .js file. You will find a lot of documentation on it.
If you want to send an ajax request using rails helpers and views use the
remote : true
option. it will process your request as a XmlHttpRequest one. You can check the type of request by naigating to your browsers console and see the type of request. In case of Ajax request it will be XmlHttpRequest type.
This is not a thorough answer since you will find a lot of documentation on internet. But just to get you started.
I have a Java application in which I provide a search box that users use to receive a long list of results.
I need to show a page while user is waiting for the response to be back from server, I know that I can send the request using ajax and while the response is not back I can show a lightbox or a separate page but I am wondering if there is any other way to implement it without ajax as I do not care if it is asynchronous or not.
I suppose need to use interceptors but do not know how and could not find much info.
To show the loading page usign struts2 you need to use execAndWait intereceptor. Have a look at this
I am looking for a way to simply disable AJAX on ONLY the home page in my project. I am using MVC so there are links to the home page in many areas. I want AJAX for the entire site however not when loading the home page. The reason is because I am using a script to setup the UI dynamically, it contains objects and those objects load when the page loads as a hard refresh but no when jQuery Mobile transitions to the page. I am looking for a solution where I can add a Script to just the home page to disable AJAX whenever it is referenced. But still have AJAX for the rest of the solution. Its a very unique situation but I haven't found anything that could prevent ONE page from being loaded through AJAX. Does anyone know?
if I could I would like to do something like this only on the home page
<script>
$(document).bind(function(){
[some call to disable this page from being loaded with AJAX]
});
</script>
Thanks in advance.
No such thing exists. Think of AJAX like a little mini-browser: if the URL returns a response, it can access it. However, it might be possible to branch on the existence of a request header in your Home action and return something like a 403 Forbidden if an "AJAXy" request header is detected.
jQuery, for example, sends an X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest header along with its request. If this header is present, the request most likely came from an AJAX method in jQuery (or other libraries that potentially use the same methodology). You can also pass your own custom headers with the AJAX request, if you want. However, all of this is implementation-specific, so it pretty much depends on all developers on your team doing things a certain way. For example, if someone used a standard JavaScript XHR object to make the request, then the X-Requested-With header would be absent. Or, if you used a custom header, every developer would need to pass that header every time, or again, the logic would break down.
If your business rules say that the home page shouldn't be requested via AJAX, the best way to handle that is at a business level, i.e. policy. Anything you try to in the actual code could easily be worked around.
I am trying to upload file without refreshing the page.
I got 1 form, 1 submit, 1 file input and 1 iframe in order to prevent refreshing.
Form sending data via iframe, so my form have target attribute.
After my c# function's work, I want to return result data, such as message, issuccess etc.
I don't know how to return result data without using http header.
Maybe it's also not possible with http header. I don't know. I am here to learn how to do.
Transferring result data via http header makes sense? Is it preferable way?
Does it occurs vulnerability?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Typically it's hard to get a file over the wire without a form post.
What I've done often is use an invisible iframe for a form post and then have the iframe call a function in the parent page upon load. This assumes you can't just use jquery or a recent version of dojo to take care of this for you.
http://viralpatel.net/blogs/ajax-style-file-uploading-using-hidden-iframe/
If you can use jquery it's much nicer. Edit: this is under the mit license
http://blueimp.github.com/jQuery-File-Upload/
Why not take advantage of the HTML5 File API. These links should point you in the right direction.
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/
http://timothypoon.com/blog/2011/05/10/ajax-uploading-with-html5s-file-api/
This may be a very unusual question, but basically there's a page on another domain (that I can view, but can't edit/change) that has a button. When that button is clicked it generates some unique keys.
I need to pull those unique keys with my web service (using ASP .NET MVC3) I can get the initial HTML of the page, but how can I force the page to "click" the button so that I can get the values after the POST?
Normally, I'd reuse the code to generate keys myself, but I don't have access to the logic.
I hope this makes sense.
Use e.g. firebug to see what POST parameters are sent with form and then make the same POST from your code.
For this you can use WebRequest or WebClient.
See this SO questions that will help you how to do it:
HTTP request with post
Send POST request in C# like a web page does?
How to simulate browser HTTP POST request and capture result in C#
Then just parse the response with technology of your choice (I would use regular expressions - Regex, or LinqToXml if the response is well formed XML).
Note: Keep in mind that your code will be dependent on some service you are not maintaining. So you can get in problems when the service is unavailable, discontinued or if the format of POSTed form or response will be changed.
This really depends on the technology on the targeted site.
If the page is a simple HTML form then you can easily send a POST. You will need to send the expected data to the POST. Then you can parse the data.
If its not so straight forward you will need to look into ways to automate the click. Check Selenium. Also you might need to employ scrapping if the results page is a mess.