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

I had a similar problem with trying to use the Facebook API.

The only contentType which didn't send the Preflighted request seemed to be just text/plain... not the rest of the parameters mentioned at mozilla here

• Why is this the only browser which does this?
• Why doesn't Facebook know and accept the preflight request?

FYI: The aforementioned Moz doc suggests X-Lori headers should trigger a Preflighted request ... it doesn't.