Form POST returns 302 from within Joomla, works great outside

Question

I have a form that submit a shopping cart to Google Checkout. The form works great on it's own, but when I put it inside of Joomla (using a content-type of wrapper), Google Checkout throws a 302, and the form page is loaded again.

As I was writing this, I then decided to see what happens from the static form, outside of Joomla. It took gets a 302, but Google Checkout loads.

If I go directly to the request url listed in the resource inspector (using chrome for this), I get an error:

Oops!
We were unable to process your request.

That happens on both the Joomla wrapped form and the stand alone.

However, both forms receive response headers, with a Location url that goes to Google Checkout, and in fact loads the proper data.

Any ideas how to get this working inside of Joomla? Or what I might be doing wrong?

I don't know this stuff well enough to explain myself too well, so if you have a clarifying question, I'd be more than happy to provide as much info as possible.

Answer 1

How are you placing your form on the webpage?

When you look at the post URL for the form, is it correct? Sometimes the text editors in Joomla can garble code.

Answer 2

The issue was in fact that the form was trying to redirect the entire page from inside an i-frame. Brought the form out into a component and it works fine.