XMLHttpRequest POST request on Gecko

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:30:41PM -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> Does it work at all?
> 
> There are a few at least people around who may know. I am having problems with 
> that. Things are OK, working on IE 6 and latest Opera. But Mozilla and 
> Firefox refuse to handle it properly. As well, I find no problems using GET 
> on all these browsers (actually, I had some, there are tricky differences not 
> well documented between them, but I found a way around).  
> 
> I had no luck to find an explicite example of working JavaScript using method 
> POST on Gecko. 
> 
> I suspect rather the problem is on my side. But who knows? It would be 
> astonishing if POST can not work properly with Mozilla/Firefox. I do not 
> exclude that though - there are some archived posts on the net about bugs 
> there that may have not been corrected.
> 
> From another hand - when developing by using Ajax interacting with PHP (or 
> some another server side scripting language) it would be good to have a way 
> to send  errors (or just output) to log file. There seems to be no easy way 
> to do that, in case of PHP, am I right? Something like when using perl - 
> there is a way to print to STDERR . In case of PHP there seems to be no 
> straitforward way of doing that? Or am I wrong?
> 
> I guess this is rather a problem for an eventual private correspondence, not 
> for the list.

Isn't XMLHttpRequest what gmail uses for it's communications?  I
remember that working on IE and firefox (which I think is gecko based)
while not working on opera for a long time (not sure if it does now).
Or am I thinking of some other XML thingy?

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