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.

Are you trying to just submit the name/value pair for each field or the entire PDF? The examples I've seen submit the entire PDF file back to the server. — madisonw
Yes, only the name/value pair. It is unnecessary to submit the rest of the information. — Josjojo

Mark Storer Mark Storer · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-03T23:24:07

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.

Submit pdf form fields to a HTTP POST request

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