POST 500（内部服务器错误）ajax xml

Question

I have tried the ajax POST method. and below is my code

$(document).ready(
function(){
    $('#cloneform').click(function(){
        $.ajax({
                type     : "POST",
                url      : "my server url",
                data     : { inputxml: escape("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><document-id>my data</document-id>") },
                dataType : "text/xml",
                contentType: "application/xml",
                success  : function(data){
                    alert(data);
                },
                error    : function() {
                    alert('Failed');
                }
            });
    });
}
);

and I tried the same using the postman i got the response as

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<document-id>data for server</document-id>

but with javascript i am getting Internal server Error .

Can anyone figure our error?

Thanks pkalyan

Answer 1

"Internal server error" doesn't tell us much. Just that something your server side code tried to do threw an error. You should debug it on the server.

That said:

data     : { inputxml: escape("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><document-id>my data</document-id>") },

escape is the old, broken way to encode data for URLs. You aren't encoding data for URLs. Don't use it here.

dataType : "text/xml",

dataType describes the data you expect back from the server. text/xml is not a valid value for it. text is and xml is.

contentType: "application/xml",

This is probably the cause of your problem.

You are claiming to send an XML formatted request. This is a lie. You are passing data an object, so jQuery will URL Form Encode it.

Remove this line or change your data so it is a string of XML.