JQuery Autocomplete remote data

Question

I've got it to work, and I have looked online and through the documentation, it's not very useful for some reason!

Given this code that works as expected:

<input type="text" id="color_input" />
<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery('#color_input').autocomplete('autoComplete.aspx');
</script>

What I can't figure out is how what the user has typed is sent to the autoComplete.aspx page? For example if I type in 'Thoma' how is 'Thoma' sent to the processing page?

Does it send it via querystring? Or post it?

Answer 1

It uses a GET request with a q=Thoma in the querystring as mentioned in the documentation .

If you turn on Firebug or HTTP Headers you should be able to trap the outgoing requests and examine them.

You change the request to use POST by setting the options