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    <p>I'm making an Ajax call that sends a URL to a PHP script. Oftentimes these URLs are complex and contain special characters. If I <em>don't</em> encode the URL before sending, the PHP script works, but the URL's values are interpreted as my values (which is expected).</p> <p>If I <em>do</em> encode a URL that <em>doesn't</em> contain special characters, like '<a href="http://google.com" rel="nofollow">http://google.com</a>' for example, the XMLHttpRequest sends my parameters to my PHP script as expected and everything works fine.</p> <p>The issue is when I encode a URL that <em>does</em> contain special characters, like '<a href="http://google.com?this=that&amp;that=this" rel="nofollow">http://google.com?this=that&amp;that=this</a>' -- send() doesn't ever reach my PHP script. It just hangs indefinitely. No errors or anything. I'm stumped.</p> <p>Here's what I'm working with:</p> <pre><code>function getContent(content, sumbittedUrl){ var postContent = encodeURIComponent(content); var postUrl = encodeURIComponent(submittedUrl); var postString = 'content=' + postContent + '&amp;url_get=' + postUrl; var httpRequest; //create XMLHttpRequest . . . httpRequest.onreadystatechange = alertContents; httpRequest.open('POST', 'php/my_php_script.php', true); httpRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); httpRequest.send(postString); } </code></pre> <p>I'm a JavaScript novice so it's possible (likely, even) that I overlooked something that someone with more experience would spot quickly. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
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    1. COWhy are you sending a query string in a POST request?
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    2. CO"It just hangs indefinitely." - How do you know that it hangs? Is it possible the request is just failing, but not hanging?
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    3. COHow else am I supposed to format the values that I'd like to pass? I'm assuming it's hanging on send() since in other situations when requests have failed, I received errors in the console. In this situation, I can write console.log('before send() is called'); just above the send() method and the statement gets executed. If I place another console.log('whatever'); beneath send(), it doesn't get executed.
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