JavaScript/AJAX Generate Url

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I have no web developing experience at all so explanation with details would be appreciated! Let me know what other information if you think my questions is not clear.

I have a webpage, say the url looks like this:

www.mycompany.com/category1

And it contains a parametric search box. There is an apply button in the parametric search whose source code looks like this:

<input type="button" value="Apply" id="Button" class="button-link" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">

It redirects you to another page after you click the apply button which contains the search results and the URL looks like:

http://www.mycompany.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2001109&No=0&getResults=true...

I took a look at the source code of the mycompany.com/category1 page and I cannot see the existence of the string '2001109' which looks like contains the information of my search..

I am wondering how is the URL generated?

It might be generated by JQuery/JavaScript/PHP..(I don't know any of these) and how could I locate the file which is used to generate the URL maybe using Chrome Web Developer Tools. Thanks a lot.

M Khalid Junaid · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-07 19:26:08Z

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Your parametric search box will be in a html form tag <form> this is the default behavior of form if you don't specify the method attribute this will be assumed as the get method to request a server ,2001109 is the value of one of the <input> field within a form if you see the html of the form there will be an action attribute which tell where to send the form information which contains this http://www.mycompany.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp url as i said there was a get request method is used therefore all the information within input fields lie in the <form></form> will be appended in the url which commonly known as query string if your request method is defined as post then information within a form will not be appended in the url it will be in browser

form

html-get-vs-post

Query_string

answered Sep 7, 2013 at 19:26

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2 Comments

B.Mr.W. Over a year ago

Thanks a lot for your answer, dianuj, I am currently diving into the code and it did acted as you mentioned. Which IDE - editor are you using so you could test your html code and it does the syntax highlight? thanks

M Khalid Junaid Over a year ago

I use jet brains ide for php ,html but it depends on you which programming language you use jetbrains.com/phpstorm

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