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

This PHP at the top of the responding script seems to work. (With Firefox 3.6.11. I have not yet done a lot of testing.)

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS');
header('Access-Control-Max-Age: 1000');
if(array_key_exists('HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS', $_SERVER)) {
    header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers: '
           . $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS']);
} else {
    header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *');
}

if("OPTIONS" == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) {
    exit(0);
}