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

We had a problem like this with ASP.Net. Our IIS was returning an Internal Server Error when trying to execute a jQuery $.post to get some html content due to PageHandlerFactory was restricted to respond only GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG Verbs. So you can change that restriction adding the verb "OPTIONS" to the list or selecting "All Verbs"

You can modify that in your IIS Manager, selecting your website, then selecting Handler Mappings, double click in your PageHandlerFactory for *.apx files as you need (We use Integrated application pool with framework 4.0). Click on Request Restrictions, then go to Verbs Tabn and apply your modification.

Now our $.post request is working as expected :)