Identifying ajax request or browser request in grails controller

Question

I am developing a grails application which uses lot of ajax.If the request is ajax call then it should give response(this part is working), however if I type in the URL in the b

Answer 1

The normal method is to have the ajax routine add a header or a query string to the request and detect that. If you're using a library for the ajax, it probably provides this already.

It looks like you're using prototype, which adds an X-Requested-With header set to 'XMLHttpRequest'; detecting that is probably your best bet.