Post Feed to GSA from AJAX Form

[Esch]

Does anyone know how I can post a feed through an AJAX form?

My GSA is on a sub-domain but I continue to get a Bad Request or
access denied. If I do a standard form submit it works fine. I'm
simply trying add a better user experience other then sending them to
a blank page that says 'success'.

Any ideas or help would be much appreciated.

cheers,
matt

[Dave Watts]

> Does anyone know how I can post a feed through an AJAX form?
>
> My GSA is on a sub-domain but I continue to get a Bad Request or
> access denied. If I do a standard form submit it works fine. I'm
> simply trying add a better user experience other then sending them to
> a blank page that says 'success'.

Well, first, it's worth asking why you'd post a feed through a browser
at all. The Feeds API isn't really intended for interactive use.
Instead, you should write a feed client that builds an HTTP request to
do this for you. The whole process should be automated as much as
possible.

That said, if you are going to use a browser, you can't do
multipart/form-data POSTs from AJAX. Normally, when you upload a file,
this is the encoding type you'd use. While the appliance does, in
theory, support the default form encoding time
(application/x-www-urlencoded), you're stuck with significant length
limitations if you do. That's probably why you're getting that bad
request - it's being truncated somewhere in the middle.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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