Can i use and is secure to use AJAX in my Server Node ??

[Angel Rodriguez]

i would like to use native ajax to make some calls inside my node.js server.

Is this secure ?? Can i do it without problems ???

Here's and example:

.... NODE

app.post('/postReceptor', function(req, res, next) {

// DATA

        var data1 = req.body['input1'];

var data2 = req.body['input2'];

// AJAX

var xhr;

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...

 xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE

 try {

   xhr = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');

 } 

 catch (e) {

   try {

     xhr = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');

   } 

   catch (e) {}

 }

}

xhr.open('GET', encodeURI('HTTP://WWW.WEBSITE.COM'), true);

xhr.send(null);

xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {

if(xhr.readyState === 4) { // done

   if(xhr.status === 200) { // complete

// > RENDERING RESULTS

res.render('renderPage', { 

 sendingData: xhr.responseText

});

 }

}

};

});

Thanks !

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 5, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Angel Rodriguez wrote:

> i would like to use native ajax to make some calls inside my node.js server.
>
> Is this secure ?? Can i do it without problems ???
>
> Here's and example:
>
> .... NODE
>
>
>
> app.post('/postReceptor', function(req, res, next) {
>
> // DATA
>
> var data1 = req.body['input1'];
>
> var data2 = req.body['input2'];
>
> // AJAX
>
> var xhr;
>
> if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
>
> xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

There's no such thing as "window" in Node. "window" is a concept used by web browsers.

Have you already investigated the facilities built into node for talking to other servers? Or the popular "request" module you can find on npm?