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

 function test_success(page,name,id,divname,str)
{ 
 var dropdownIndex = document.getElementById(name).selectedIndex;
 var dropdownValue = document.getElementById(name)[dropdownIndex].value;
 var params='&'+id+'='+dropdownValue+'&'+str;
 //makerequest_sp(url, params, divid1);

 $.ajax({
    url: page,
    type: "post",
    data: params,
    // callback handler that will be called on success
    success: function(response, textStatus, jqXHR){
        // log a message to the console
        document.getElementById(divname).innerHTML = response;

        var retname = 'n_district';
        var dropdownIndex = document.getElementById(retname).selectedIndex;
        var dropdownValue = document.getElementById(retname)[dropdownIndex].value;
        if(dropdownValue >0)
        {
            //alert(dropdownValue);
            document.getElementById('inputname').value = dropdownValue;
        }
        else
        {
            document.getElementById('inputname').value = "00";
        }
        return;
        url2=page2; 
        var params2 = parrams2+'&';
        makerequest_sp(url2, params2, divid2);

     }
});         
}