Recently I am confused about whether it's possible to send input/textarea data directly without being included in html <form>. I thought in web page, if we want to get information from user then send the text to authentication server, we must use <form> irrespective of in which way it's submitted.
But an anonymous reviewer of my paper claims that <html> can be bypassed by using an html5 tag "textarea" and JS AJAX post. While I did lots of experiments trying to implement his way but all failed.
I wonder if there is really some way to submit user info without using <form> tag?
Thank you
Thanks for everyone's reply.
Update: I followed "the_void"'s code and changed the url of AJAX to a ServerSocket (implemented by Java). The server was able to get the POST event, but it cannot read the "data" of AJAX. The following is the html code:
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script src="//ajax.googleapis/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#submit').click(function() {
// information to be sent to the server
info = $('#foo').val();
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: ':8888',
data: ({ foo: info }),
// crossDomain: true,
// dataType: 'json'
});
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<label>Text</label>
<textarea id="foo"></textarea>
<button id="submit">Submit via Ajax</button>
</body>
</html>
It seems that the socket server cannot read from AJAX (but it can read from < form > + < action >). Is there any way to fix the reading issue?
Thank you
Recently I am confused about whether it's possible to send input/textarea data directly without being included in html <form>. I thought in web page, if we want to get information from user then send the text to authentication server, we must use <form> irrespective of in which way it's submitted.
But an anonymous reviewer of my paper claims that <html> can be bypassed by using an html5 tag "textarea" and JS AJAX post. While I did lots of experiments trying to implement his way but all failed.
I wonder if there is really some way to submit user info without using <form> tag?
Thank you
Thanks for everyone's reply.
Update: I followed "the_void"'s code and changed the url of AJAX to a ServerSocket (implemented by Java). The server was able to get the POST event, but it cannot read the "data" of AJAX. The following is the html code:
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#submit').click(function() {
// information to be sent to the server
info = $('#foo').val();
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'http://10.0.0.3:8888',
data: ({ foo: info }),
// crossDomain: true,
// dataType: 'json'
});
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<label>Text</label>
<textarea id="foo"></textarea>
<button id="submit">Submit via Ajax</button>
</body>
</html>
It seems that the socket server cannot read from AJAX (but it can read from < form > + < action >). Is there any way to fix the reading issue?
Thank you
Share Improve this question edited Sep 12, 2020 at 18:22 snnsnn 13.6k5 gold badges49 silver badges55 bronze badges asked Feb 3, 2014 at 22:38 user3267738user3267738 551 gold badge2 silver badges5 bronze badges 4 |3 Answers
Reset to default 11Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript & XML) is a way to send data from client to the server asynchronously. For that you'd have to write code for sending the data in the client-side using Javascript/HTML and also to process the received data using server-side languages (eg PHP) on the server-side.
And, yes you don't need a <form> tag to do so.
Check out this example.
HTML:
<label>Text</label>
<textarea id="foo"></textarea>
<button id="submit">Submit via Ajax</button>
Javascript:
$('#submit').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
// information to be sent to the server
var info = $('#foo').val();
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: 'server.php',
data: {foo: info}
});
});
Server-side Handler (PHP): server.php
<?php
// information received from the client
$recievedInfo = $_POST['foo'];
// do something with this information
See this for your reference http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/
Perhaps your reviewer was referring to the HTML5 textarea attribute "form". It allows a textarea to be part of a specified form without being inside the form element. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_textarea_form.asp
But generally speaking, as long as you can identify an element, say a textarea, you can access the text inside it and send it to the server without submitting any forms using ajax.
From Sable's comment:
http://api.jquery.com/jquery.post
OR
http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/
Yes, you can submit data to a server without putting it into a form. Form's provide a simpler mechanism for sending larger amounts of data to a server without the developer having to tell the browser how to encode the form.
EG:
HTML
JS
var text = $("input[type='text']").val();
$.post("/my/server/url", { userInput : text }, function(data){ /* Success! */});
This would technically post the data to the server without a form.
<form>tag. You can also submit a form with$_GETin the URL. See: api.jquery.com/jquery.post – Sablefoste Commented Feb 3, 2014 at 22:40