Changing the data in before submit

Question

I am using the ajaxForm plugin found here

Now i have a form with username & password

My requirement is

Answer 1

You need to change your beforeSubmit function to this:

    beforeSubmit : function(arr, $form, options){
      arr.push({name:'hashed-password', value:$.md5($('#password').val())})
   },

Then you can access the hashed-password variable in your servlet.

The reason for this is that the value from the text input has already been processed by AjaxForm and stored in the arr array.

Edit: if you don't want to send the plaintext password, you can use your original method but change beforeSubmit : function(arr, $form, options){ to beforeSerialize : function() {