[FIXED] What is the difference between ajax post request and form post request?

Issue

on server side, for example, I use flask to handle these post requests, the same code can handle the two type requests, but on client side, ajax request will not let the browser to refresh the whole page, but the form does. So what is the difference in deep, is some header field not same?? or something else?? Thanks!

Solution

There is no difference, only that AJAX is, as the acronym suggests, asynchronous, which means it does not block anything else from running. Both the form and an AJAX request send a POST request the only difference is that the browser uses the response from the forms POST request to load the new page where as the AJAX requests response is passed to a callback in JavaScript.

Answered By - dangee1705

Answer Checked By - David Goodson (PHPFixing Volunteer)