Question

Is there a way to specify a form either through type or action url to not open the response? In other words I would like to send the info to the server, but not do anything on the client. I know I can use ajax and ignore the response, but I would like to avoid adding all the js to my code if possible.

Edit: I didn’t mean to limit myself to the html form. In my case server side solutions were also acceptable.

Answer 1

Have the server return HTTP 204 (No Content) after the form submission. According to the HTTP 1.1 spec:

10.2.5 204 No Content

The server has fulfilled the request
but does not need to return an
entity-body, and might want to return
updated metainformation. The response
MAY include new or updated
metainformation in the form of
entity-headers, which if present
SHOULD be associated with the
requested variant.

If the client is a user agent, it
SHOULD NOT change its document view
from that which caused the request to
be sent. This response is primarily
intended to allow input for actions to
take place without causing a change to
the user agent’s active document view,
although any new or updated
metainformation SHOULD be applied to
the document currently in the user
agent’s active view.

The 204 response MUST NOT include a
message-body, and thus is always
terminated by the first empty line
after the header fields.

This sounds like exactly what you want.