Simulate a POST request

Question

I am developing a node.js app using express. I'm listening on port 3000 of localhost for POST requests. The only way I know how to simulate a POST request is using jQuery.ajax():

$.ajax({
    url: 'localhost:3000',
    type: 'POST',
    data: {hello: 1},
    success: function (data) {
        console.log(data);
    },
    error: function (data) {
        console.log(data);
    }
});

Unfortunately, I get a the error message:

"XMLHttpRequest cannot load localhost:3000. Cross origin requests are only supported for HTTP."

What am I doing stupidly? Is there a better approach I should consider?

Answer 1

You can also use unix command curl to simulate the requests. With it you get horde of options.

In your case it would be curl http://localhost:3000 -d "{hello:1}" -X POST

Answer 2

Use http://localhost:3000 for the url... otherwise it gets used as a directory or file