Question

I’m trying to implement a third party tool. This tool uses a form with the post method to send data to their site. Is there any way that I can mimic this action without using the form tag? I don’t know much about jquery post and same domain (this is sending it off to a different domain) so I don’t know if there would be an issue with this.

Everything that I’ve found in my search talks about ajax and returning content after you post but all I want to do is to take the customer to the third party’s site after they have submitted the form.

thanks!

Answer 1

You cannot send data to a different domain with AJAX. Its not permitted by the browser. As for can you do it without a form element, yes. Just encode the data as it would look in a browser get URL like http://site.com/search?query=I+love+js&perpage=10&page=2

datatosend="field1="+value+"&field2="+value2

$.post(url,datatosend,function(data){//do something with data. location.href="new location"}