Submit button to send pdf to folder on server

Hi everyone,
I need to add a submit button to my livecycle designer form that allows the user to submit the entire pdf to a folder on a remote server. I tried putting the following code on the click event for my button:
var myURL = “http://mysite.com/test/”;
var myDoc = event.target;
myDoc.submitForm({cURL: myURL,cSubmitAs: “PDF”,cUsageRights: submitFormUsageRights.RMA });
Although when I opened up the file in Acrobat pro and clicked the button, nothing happened.
Would anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Grateful for any advice.

Bill, thanks for replying. I thought I should explain our scenario:
We have designed a PDF form for data input. This form is distributed as a "stand-alone" PDF - not residing on a server. The user fills in the form which produces a legal document. The user then hits a submit button which produces an XML document which is emailed to a person in the organisation who uses the XML for import into another application. However they also require the PDF document to be emailed as this contains supplementary information which is not contained in the XML file. (i.e. some fields are not exported with the XML file).

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