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    copied!<p>I'm submitting a HTML form to REST(eXist db) web service using POST method.A normal submission is giving <strong>400 bad request</strong></p> <p>Here is my HTML code</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; /* function createXMLHttpRequest() { if( typeof XMLHttpRequest == "undefined" ) XMLHttpRequest = function() { try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0") } catch(e) {} try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0") } catch(e) {} try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP") } catch(e) {} try { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") } catch(e) {} throw new Error( "This browser does not support XMLHttpRequest." ) }; return new XMLHttpRequest(); } var AJAX = createXMLHttpRequest();*/ function submitForm() { //AJAX.open("POST",'http://localhost:8899/exist/rest/db/xql/sample.xq'); // AJAX.send(document.form.xmlData.value); document.form.submit(); }; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;form name='form' action="http://localhost:8899/exist/rest/db/xql/sample.xq" enctype="text/plain" method="post"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="xmlData"/&gt; &lt;input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="submitForm()";&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>The commented code is to send POST request using AJAX. I captured the http header request and response for form submit and AJAX submit These are the request headers:</p> <p>HTML form submit header:</p> <pre><code>(Request-Line) POST /exist/rest/db/xql/sample.xq HTTP/1.1 Host localhost:8899 User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Connection keep-alive Content-Type text/plain Content-Length 26 </code></pre> <p>AJAX request header:</p> <pre><code>(Request-Line) POST /exist/rest/db/xql/sample.xq HTTP/1.1 Host localhost:8899 User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Connection keep-alive Content-Length 16 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Origin null Pragma no-cache Cache-Control no-cache </code></pre> <p>Im not getting what's wrong in my code . Im working on this for 2 days but i din't find any solution. Please look into this and provide a solution.</p> <p>Thanks in advance. </p>
 

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