Problem sending JSON data from JQuery to WCF REST method

Question

I\'m having some trouble getting jquery to post some json data to a rest method I have on my WCF service.

On the WCF side, here\'s the operation contract:

Answer 1

This seems to be a Firefox thing for avoiding cross domain calls. See http://www.petefreitag.com/item/703.cfm

The spec for this is here http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ and after a very brief read, it appears that because you are doing a cross domain call, your service is expected to implement the OPTIONS method and return some headers that allow the POST method to be sent.