Question

I have this part of script from my GAE application which uses webapp2, which accepts data from a form using post,

class RenderMarksheet(webapp2.RequestHandler):
   def post(self):
     regno = self.request.get('content')  # Here's where I extract the data from the form
     ...
     ...
     ...
     self.response.out.write(template.render(templates/render.html, template_values))

And the web form which posts to this script,

<form action="/sign" method="post" name="inputform" onsubmit="return validate()">
    Register No : <input type="number" name="regno" placeholder="Your Register No."/> 
                  <input type="submit" value="Get-My-GPA!" >
</form>

Now, I want to manually pass a specific data (a register no.), without using the submit button from the form, to the python script( or the url, perhaps) , using Javascript, say a button that triggers a javascript method.

I have to POST the data using javascript(to implement AJAX).
In python I do this, to post the data to a url,

import http.client, urllib.parse
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({'regno':10109104021})
headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
       "Accept": "text/plain"}
conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("mydomain:8888")
conn.request("POST", "/sign", params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print(response.status, response.reason)
data = response.read()

How can I post the data to the url, via Jquery or Javascript?

Answer 1

fastest is to use jQuery and use $.post()