# How to send 2 requests in HTML / Javascript?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-send-2-requests-in-html-javascript/636484
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [April 22, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-send-2-requests-in-html-javascript/636484 "2017-04-22T20:31:34Z")
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### Author:  [@HarryPorter](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/HarryPorter)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-send-2-requests-in-html-javascript/636484/1 "2017-04-22T20:31:34Z")
I currently have a form that uploads file to a server the files are uploaded using the regular “multipart/form-data” and method=“POST”. I also am sending additional metadata to the server in the same post. For this I hook on to the on submit event and set the value of a hidden field with the data using javascript.
All this works perfectly fine and on the server I can see the metadata and also the uploaded files in PHP.
But now I need something different. I want to send the data first to the server and then then file upload. So is there some way I can send the metadata first and then trigger the file upload submit?
I am doing this is that just in case the client upload large files and the upload fails I may not get the important metadata.
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-send-2-requests-in-html-javascript/636484/2 "2017-04-23T18:38:48Z")
I have never tried this, but I noticed somebody asked something similar on the old forums: [https://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?348289-sending-two-post-requests](https://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?348289-sending-two-post-requests)
I am not too familiar with PHP anymore, so my default idea is to try sending the metadata post-request using JavaScript. Would that be something you’d want to try?