Question

I am trying to use jQuery’s ajax functionality to update data from a web form (ASP.NET MVC). Part of the data comes from a text area, and while is not a huge amount of data, can easily be more than 2 KB.

It seems that jQuery ajax puts all data into the query string, hence causing IIS to reject the URL, hence breaking the call. Is it possible to add data to a POST request using the ajax model under jQuery, rather than having everything in the query string?

Answer 1

use $.post

e.g

$.post(someUrl, { textData: $('#someInput').val() } ); 

$.post is just a simple wrapper around $.ajax.

$.ajax({ type :'post',           data : { textData: $('#someInput').val() },          url : someUrl       });