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

The reason for the error is the same origin policy. It only allows you to do XMLHTTPRequests to your own domain. See if you can use a JSONP callback instead:

$.getJSON( 'http:///api.php?callback=?', function ( data ) { alert ( data ); } );