Strange problem w/IE, Ajax, OpenRico error, never

amy

I am currently adding Ajax calls to an existing Spring web application.  I am using OpenRico 1.1.2/Prototype 1.4.0 to make my Ajax calls to a Spring 2.0 back-end controller running on BEA WebLogic 8.1 SP3.

My calls work perfectly using a FireFox 2.0 browser but they don't work when using IE 5.5.    The calls are to quot;runTest.htmquot;, which is mapped (via Spring) to a Java-based controller.  But the call never gets there when running IE.  I get the following error:

Method get is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API.

If I change my method from 'get' to 'GET', then IE _does_ make the call, but none of the parameters are accessible from the controller (using request.getParameter()).  (This is the same behavior in FireFox 2.0.)  I get similar behaviors using 'post' and 'POST'.

Any ideas?  Thanks!

I ended up solving my own problem, although I'm not sure it's the best solution...  First, some more background:

I was attempting to make Ajax calls using OpenRico 1.1.2/Prototype 1.4.  Everything worked fine when attempting to access a JSP page directly.  But when I switched to calling a .htm (which routed to a Spring 2.0-based Controller running on BEA WebLogic 8.1 SP3), it broke things in Internet Explorer 5.5.  (It worked fine in FireFox 2.0.)  After doing some debugging, I found that the returned response (instead of my expected XML string) was:
  Method get is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API

I also tried using post with similar results.

Next, I attempted to override the method using quot;GETquot;/quotOSTquot; instead of quot;getquot;/quot;postquot;.  This produced identical results on both IE and FireFox -- the calls occurred but the controller did not pick up the parameters.

So, in summary, here's what I had happening:
          FireFox 2.0                             IE 5.5          -----------------------------   -------------------------
'get'    |Worked!                                 RFC 2068 error
'post'   |Worked!                                 RFC 2068 error
'GET'    |No values passed to Controller   No values passed to Controller
'POST'  |No values passed to Controller   No values passed to Controller

Since I couldn't come up with a way to make 'get' or 'post' work in IE 5.5, I ended up editing prototype.js as follows:

BEFORE (lines 600, 651, and 663, respectively):
method: 'post',
this.transport.send(this.options.method == 'post' ? body : null);
if (this.options.method == 'post') {

AFTER:
method: 'POST',
this.transport.send(this.options.method == 'post' || this.options.method == 'POST' ? body : null);
if (this.options.method == 'post' || this.options.method == 'POST' ) {

This seems to work for both IE 5.5 and FireFox 2.0, provided 'POST' is used for the method.