Submit pdf form fields to a HTTP POST request

Question

I've made a pdf form in Adobe Acrobat. Now I want to make a button that submits the form to a HTTP POST request. I have searched for about 4 hours, but I have not found an example to do this.

Here I read that it is possible to send the pdf form fields with a HTTP submission, but there's also no example given: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/form-submit-e-mail-demystified

I'm looking for a JavaScript example that I can link to the submit button.

Solution

doc.submitForm(url, false);

or

doc.submitForm( url, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null
                null, null, null, null, null, "HTML" );

submitForm actually takes 23 different parameters, the above is only using 16 of them. And if I miscounted, I'm trying to use the cSubmitAs parameter.

This from the JavaScript API reference, which can be found at... lets see... right here. Enjoy.

PS: "this" is almost universally the document in acrobat events. event.target might be a field or something, but "this" is going to be the document.

PPS: Things like bEmpty, aFields, and various other parameters don't work when bFDF = false.

Comments

[scunliffe]

"...takes 23 different parameters" - wow, that is so, so, so, so,... ...so wrong.

[Mark Storer]

It wasn't MY idea. Allthough calling it with {url: url, cSubmitAs: "HTML"} would have been considerably less painful, in retrospect.

[Ray Cheng]

I recently tried to do this also, but the submit doesn't work with Foxit free PDF reader. It works fine with Acrobat free reader.

[Mark Storer]

Script support outside of the Acrobat stuff is going to be spotty. They tend to cover the basics fairly well, but anything off the beaten path is a crap shoot at best.

[Mathijs Flietstra]

The bit of JSON in @MarkStorer's comment should be {cURL: url, cSubmitAs: "HTML"}.

[Jason Swett]

Where does doc come from?

[Marius]

Instead of doc, I've had more success with a JS method on this.