AJAX problem with Lighttpd and jQuery

Thursday, April 16, 2009

While converting the environment of one of my business projects from Apache to Lighttpd, I experienced a problem, which didn't occur with Apache before. The following code worked fine in Aapache:
$.post('http://example.com/ajax');
When executing the same request to Lighttpd, you receive the following error message:
411 - Length Required
The solution was pretty simple, thought I only found it because it was working in another place with a similar case. The solution is to add an empty POST-object to the request (which will then send the content-length header):
$.post('http://example.com/ajax', {});
Hopefully this will help somone who experienced the same problem.

Comments to this article

  • Avatar of pr madison Reply pr madison Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:44 PM

    nice, very nice ;)

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