Need assistance posting data to asp.net mvc application using jquery

Question

I've got an MVC application that accepts eitherJSON or XML objects dpending on the request type. This application is based on this article

To call a method on the MVC application that requires a complex object, I use the following Javascript (JQuery):

function GetUnassignedJob() {
if (isInteger($('#txtDay').val()) && isInteger($('#txtMonth').val()) && isInteger($('#txtYear').val()) && isInteger(intCurrentJobSummaryIndex) && intCurrentJobSummaryIndex > -1) {
    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
        url: 'http://server/api/wip/joboptimise/getlistforids/' + $('#txtYear').val() + '/' + $('#txtMonth').val() + '/' + $('#txtDay').val(),
        data: $.toJSON(aJobSummary[intCurrentJobSummaryIndex].JobIds),
        dataType: 'json',
        cache: false,
        beforeSend: function(XMLHttpRequest) { ShowLoading(); },
        success: function(data, textStatus) {
            try {
                ClearUnassignedJobs();
                AddUnassignedJobs(data);
            }
            catch (e) {
                alert('GetUnassignedJob():\r\n\r\n' + e.message);
                HideLoading();
            }
        },
        error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
            HideLoading();
            ShowStatus('unable to retrieve job list');
        },
        complete: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus) {
            HideLoading();
        }
    });
}
else {
    ShowStatus('please ensure you have entered numeric values for day, month and year');
}

}

When deployed to the server and accessed from any client on the network - everything works fine. However, when I try to to the same from the server, I receive the following error message:

Page Location: /api/wip/joboptimise/getlistforids/2010/3/10

Message: Expecting element 'root' from namespace ''.. Encountered 'None' with name '', namespace ''.

Source: System.ServiceModel.Web

Method: System.Object InternalReadObject(System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlReaderDelegator, Boolean)

Stack Trace: at System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer.InternalReadObject(XmlReaderDelegator xmlReader, Boolean verifyObjectName) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.ReadObjectHandleExceptions(XmlReaderDelegator reader, Boolean verifyObjectName) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer.ReadObject(XmlDictionaryReader reader) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer.ReadObject(Stream stream) at rbm.api.ObjectFilter.ProcessJson(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)

Some further investigation shows that the InputStream property of the HttpContext is empty! Stranger still, when I use an application like TcpTrace (so that I can see the HTTP traffic), everything works!

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,

Mark

Answer 1

The prior comments are right, using local host. You could edit your hosts file located at: windows\system32\drivers\etc on your server and add an entry that maps local host to the URL

 127.0.0.1 www.xyz.com