How do I POST this data to an http server?

Question

In order to control a web service I'm using, I need to send a POST request of the following data. How would I format this into html that sends the POST request when there's a click event or button press?

 <sci_request version="1.0">
  <data_service>
    <targets>
      <device id="00000000-00000000-90A2DAFF-FF050000"/>
    </targets>
    <requests>
      <device_request target_name="myTarget"> 
        my payload string
      </device_request>
   </requests>
  </data_service>

Here's the jquery code I'm trying to execute this from:

$('#button1').click(function(){$.post('--SERVER--', {--THE POST OF INFO FROM ABOVE--});});

What have you tried? We don't just write code for you, we help you fix the code you've written. — Barmar, Dec 02 '12 at 22:10
Added what I have written so far. Just not sure how to condense the xml into a POST. — nonlinearmind, Dec 02 '12 at 22:38
Just send it as a string, and use an XML parser in the server script. — Barmar, Dec 03 '12 at 05:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 17 '14 at 12:20

You can pick an HTML node and get its code as string by using .html() (the parent itself won't be included). Then turn that into an XML document using $.parseXML().

Note that the unclosed node sci_request is problematic and should have a closing element. jQuery will fail to parse to XML if it's missing. You can circumvent the entire issue by parsing a string of the complete XML structure instead of having it in the HTML document for the user.

http://jsfiddle.net/Cn3Pv/

How do I POST this data to an http server?

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