Posting form to one external url, but sending user back to same url

[Pirellio]

I want to submit information to an external client

The form is on

http://www.myurl.com

then
onsubmit

http://www.external.com?this=that

The external url is a lotus notes db
can't use a redirect back to my url

focus back to in the onsubmit

http://www.myurl.com

your email sent


Any Ideas??

 

[jaxtell]

Use AJAX. Have the form use ajax to post the info to the external site. Check the value it returns. If successful, display the message on the page.

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[BabyJeffy]

You can only use AJAX to post to something on the same domain I believe.

To achieve this (using AJAX) you will need a proxy running on your domain at

http://www.myurl.com

that then marshalls the post to the desired external domain.

It may be that the way to solve this is to submit to the server at

http://www.myurl.com

anyway and have the server handle passing the post params to the 3rd party.

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[shadedecho]

You could popup a child window, post the form to the child window, then redirect your parent window page, and on the new "email sent" confirmation page, close the child window. Users will probably be warned that their form submission is being redirected, though, for security purposes.

Otherwise, you could use an Ajax variant to achieve cross-domain posting ability. One such thing is "flXHR" (

http://flxhr.flensed.com/)

There are others, too.