jQuery $.ajax(), $.post sending “OPTIONS” as REQUEST_METHOD in Firefox

Question

Having trouble with what I thought was a relatively simple jQuery plugin...

The plugin should fetch data from a php script via ajax to add options to a

Answer 1

I was looking through source 1.3.2, when using JSONP, the request is made by building a SCRIPT element dynamically, which gets past the browsers Same-domain policy. Naturally, you can't make a POST request using a SCRIPT element, the browser would fetch the result using GET.

As you are requesting a JSONP call, the SCRIPT element is not generated, because it only does this when the Type of AJAX call is set to GET.

http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4690