I completely agree with mercenary's answer posted above and created this function for me which works for me. It's not an answer, it's a comment on above post by mercenary
function openWindowWithPostRequest() {
var winName='MyWindow';
var winURL='search.action';
var windowoption='resizable=yes,height=600,width=800,location=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1';
var params = { 'param1' : '1','param2' :'2'};
var form = document.createElement("form");
form.setAttribute("method", "post");
form.setAttribute("action", winURL);
form.setAttribute("target",winName);
for (var i in params) {
if (params.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
var input = document.createElement('input');
input.type = 'hidden';
input.name = i;
input.value = params[i];
form.appendChild(input);
}
}
document.body.appendChild(form);
window.open('', winName,windowoption);
form.target = winName;
form.submit();
document.body.removeChild(form);
}