Jquery - how to open a window and POST to it? (required for bank processing page - doesn't accept querystring)

Question

Hi there,

Is there anyway that i can open a new window in the browser using jquery and post to it.

Reason being is my bank requires that i open there payment gateway and pass my values by POST and not GET.

I have a bit of workaround at the moment but its not idea.. I used QUERYSTRING to an ASPX page withing some hidden forms and submit the form to my bank

but its really not good.

Maybe jquery can do this natively or using a plugin?

Any ideas?

Thnaks

Answer 1

Stackoverflow Archive:

• Javascript Post on Form Submit Open New Window

  Accepted Answer:
  Add <form target="_blank" ...></form>
  or form.setAttribute("target", "_blank");
  to your form's definition.

Google Results:

• "Javascript Post to New Window"

Answer 2

How about using the target attribute (_blank) of a form and posting to a new window?

The target attribute of the form element was deprecated in HTML 4.01, and is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD, so if that's important to you it won't work.

Answer 3

I never used JQuery but this is how I do it with plain Java Script.

Maybe you can port it to JQuery syntax:

window.open("",'myWindow','scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes'); 
window.setTimeout("document.myFormName.submit();",500);

myFormName has to mach the 'name' attribute of the Form.

see:

• http://w3schools.com/htmldom/met_win_open.asp

• http://w3schools.com/htmldom/met_win_settimeout.asp

Answer 4

do you really need a new window? with jQuery.post() ( http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.post#urldatacallbacktype ) you could make a async post to the bankpage and display its return value as you like.

maybe the bank page even has the option to return json data instead of plain html.

hth