jQuery: I get OPTIONS request instead of GET

Question

I am using simple jQuery

$.get( .... );

Here instead of getting GET response I get OPTIONS.( checked in firebug Net)

Same code is w

Answer 1

This is likely due to restrictions on Javascript doing cross-domain XMLHttpRequests. This is generally not allowed for security reasons. See the question referenced above, or a similar question I asked.

To solve this problem:

• Write a sever side component (using PHP or whatever) that will retrieve the remote resource on behalf of your AJAX request, or
• Do a JSONP call: see http://www.insideria.com/2009/03/what-in-the-heck-is-jsonp-and.html (or hunt around StackOverflow for JSONP) :)

Hope that helps!