What's it all about, Alfie?

OK, since I was on a roll with the work I was doing at The Shop, it made sense to keep going and apply it to putting a web front-end on the CryptoQuip solver a friend and I have been working on. The solver is all Clojure, and so it took just a few tweaks to get all the static files in-place and ready, and then getting the POST working was really the challenge.

Turns out, the way to get it to work was:

  function solveThePuzzle() {
    console.log("attempting to solve the puzzle");
    // get what we need for the call...
    var inp = {};
    inp.cyphertext = $("#plaintext").val();
    inp.clue = {};
    inp.clue[$("#key1").val()] = $("#key2").val();
    // make the call to solve the puzzle
    $.ajax({type: "POST",
            url: "/solve",
            processData: false,
            contentType: 'application/json',
            data: JSON.stringify(inp),
            success: function(resp) {
              var cont = '<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">';
              cont += '<strong>Solved:</strong> ' + resp.plaintext;
              cont += '</div>';
              $("#status").replaceWith(cont);
            }
    })
  }

and the results are very nice:

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