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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am trying to do a simple request of data (just a dummy
page as the target for now), but I am missing some crucial understanding, as
this is not working for me. Any small guidance anyone could provide would be helpful,
I am very new to working with </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ajax</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My goal at the time being is to simply initiate a request
from a page, and then alert the data returned by that page. I assumed
that an </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ajax</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> request would be the right way to
go. I am initiating the request as follows:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Var url = ‘test.php’</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> var responseObj =
new OpenLayers.Ajax.Request(url,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>
{ method: 'post',</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>
postBody: data,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>
onComplete: success,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>
onFailure:
failure</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>
}</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>
);</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> var responseData
= responseObj.transport.responseText;</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> alert(responseData);</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And the request IS being made, as verified by my httpd
access log:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>172.16.210.66 - - [</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>30/Jul/2007</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>:</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>10:31:14</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -0400]
"POST /wms_maps/test.php HTTP/1.1" 200 154</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>However, I can’t seem to find the text that is
generated by test.php in my responseObj. I am attempting to access this
text with the “responseText” property of my responseObj, but am
getting only a blank (whereas the script itself returns several lines of text).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sorry if this is a dumb question, I have not been able to nabble
any successful tutorials on this. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>TIA,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>r.b.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Robert W. Burgholzer</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Surface Water Modeler</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Office of Water Supply and Planning</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Department</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of
Environmental Quality</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:rwburgholzer@deq.virginia.gov">rwburgholzer@deq.virginia.gov</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>804-698-4405</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Open Source Modeling Tools:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Web-Based Water Supply Planning Demo:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://soulswimmer.dynalias.net/models/wsdemo/demo.php">http://soulswimmer.dynalias.net/models/wsdemo/demo.php</a></span></font></p>
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