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Reputation: 1769

Jquery ajax function returns wrong page, though the url in a browser window shows correct page

I'm building a chrome extension in javascript.

I'm trying to get the page contents from an Outlook mailserver through an ajax request, but I have trouble getting the correct page returned.

I suspect it is the danish letter æ, that creates the problem, but don't know how to resolve it.

$.ajax({
    url: baseURL + 'Indbakke/',
    data: "Cmd=contents&View=Ulæste%20meddelelser", //Avoid encodeURI
    dataType: 'html',
    processData: false, //Avoid encodeURI
    cache: false,
    success: function(data) {
             fetchedInbox = $.parseHTML(data);

             //If there are changes to the inbox, refresh the inbox page
             if(findString(fetchedInbox, 'ingen emner')) 
             {
                 window.parent.frames[1].location = baseURL + 'Indbakke/?Cmd=contents';
             }
    },
    complete : function(){
             console.log("URL" + this.url)
    }
  });

The data variable of the succes function contains the wrong page, but if I copy 'this.url' from the complete function into a browser, it displays the right page. I have tried using default ajax settings and encodeURI on the full link (without using the 'data' option), but then neither 'data' or 'this.url' will work (i.e. I change the second parameter to 'View=Ul%C6ste%20meddelelser').

I do not have access to the (probably) asp page that the server sends, just javascript, so I can't do anything serverside.

Note: When chromes console show this.url, it breaks the link before æ, so I have to manually copy the url

Upvotes: 1

Views: 611

Answers (1)

Broxzier
Broxzier

Reputation: 2949

It's probably the æ that creates this error. Replace æ by %C3%A6 and the headers will be send to the correct location.

data: "Cmd=contents&View=Ul%C3%A6ste%20meddelelser"

To find the encoded character, I used this converter: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

Upvotes: 1

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