Name
XML.send( ) Method — send XML source code to a script
Availability
Flash 5
Synopsis
XMLdoc.send(URL, window)
Arguments
- URL
A string specifying the location of a script or application to which
XMLdoc
should be sent.
- window
A required string, specifying the name of the browser window or frame into which to load the script’s response. May be a custom name or one of the four presets:
"_blank"
,"_ parent"
,"_self"
, or"_top"
. For details, see the description of the window settings under the globalgetURL( )
function.
Description
The send( )
method converts
XMLdoc
into a string of XML source code
and sends that code in an HTTP request to the script or application
residing at URL
. The script or application
is expected to process the XML in some way and optionally return a
response—normally a web page—to the browser, which
displays it in window
. Note that the
response is not caught by Flash but by the browser; use
sendAndLoad( )
to catch the response within
Flash.
When XML.send( )
is invoked from the Flash
Player running in a browser,
XMLdoc
is sent via the POST method. When
XML.send( )
is invoked from the Flash Player
running as a standalone application,
XMLdoc
is sent via the GET method. The
server application receiving the posted XML string must be able to
access the raw POST data of the HTTP request directly and should not
attempt to parse it as normal name/value pairs. In Perl, the data in
a POST request is available from STDIN, and may be extracted and
stored in, say, $buffer
as follows: ...
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