I'm using CGI::Application::Dispatch on the Perl backend

Data is sent from Javascript:

     88 var _factories = [
     89     function() { return new XMLHttpRequest(); },
     90     function() { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); }
+,
     91     function() { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
+; }
     92 ];
     93
     94 var _factory = null;
     95
     96 function newRequest() {
     97     if (_factory != null) return _factory();
     98
     99     for(var i = 0; i < _factories.length; i++) {
    100         try {
    101             var factory = _factories[i];
    102             var request = factory();
    103             if (request != null) {
    104                 _factory = factory;
    105                 return request;
    106             }
    107         }
    108         catch(e) {
    109             continue;
    110         }
    111     }
    112     _factory = function() {
    113         throw new Error("XMLHttpRequest not supported");
    114     }
    115     _factory();
    116 }

   1233     var http_request;
   1234     http_request = newRequest();

   1252     var query = "ip=" + document.getElementById('ip').value;
   1253     http_request.open('POST', "/index.pl/get_neigh_display", t
+rue);
   1254     http_request.send(query);
   1255     return false;

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But when I do the same action from the same web page, but different browsers, I get parameters in a different form through Perl CGI (see below). My code has been working with the IE form, can I do anything to make the Firefox output form similar ?

THANKS Much in advance.

The below was generated in the target Perl procedure by:

print STDERR "QUERY: ", Dumper($self->query), "\n"; 

FIREFOX

  15202 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131] QUERY:
+ $VAR1 = bless( {, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15203 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           '.parameters' => [, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15204 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+                              'POSTDATA', referer: http://56.207.201.
+210:8083/
  15205 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+                            ],, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15206 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           '.charset' => 'ISO-8859-1',, referer: http://56.207.201.21
+0:8083/
  15207 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           'POSTDATA' => [, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15208 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+                           'ip=56.97.243.16', referer: http://56.207.
+201.210:8083/
  15209 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+                         ],, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15210 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           '.fieldnames' => {},, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15211 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           'escape' => 1, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15212 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+         }, 'CGI' );, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15213 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131] , refe
+rer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15214 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131] [Tue J
+ul 22 08:55:55 2014] index.pl: Use of uninitialized value in pattern 
+match (m//) at /var/www/smartncm_test_ie11/lib/OpenNCMApp/EntryPoint.
+pm line 896., referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
  15215 [Tue Jul 22 08:55:55 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131] [Tue J
+ul 22 08:55:55 2014] index.pl: Use of uninitialized value in pattern 
+match (m//) at /var/www/smartncm_test_ie11/lib/OpenNCMApp/EntryPoint.
+pm line 897., referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/


IE

  15332 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131] QUERY:
+ $VAR1 = bless( {, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/#
  15333 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           '.parameters' => [, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/#
  15334 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+                              'ip', referer: http://56.207.201.210:80
+83/#
  15335 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+                            ],, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/#
  15336 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           '.charset' => 'ISO-8859-1',, referer: http://56.207.201.21
+0:8083/#
  15337 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           'ip' => [, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/#
  15338 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+                     '56.97.243.16', referer: http://56.207.201.210:8
+083/#
  15339 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+                   ],, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/#
  15340 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           '.fieldnames' => {},, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/
+#
  15341 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+           'escape' => 1, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/#
  15342 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131]       
+         }, 'CGI' );, referer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/#
  15343 [Tue Jul 22 08:58:58 2014] [error] [client 56.80.2.131] , refe
+rer: http://56.207.201.210:8083/#

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In reply to Firefox/Javascript/Perl CGI argument passing issue by beckmanel

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