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 used a proxy url to solve a similar problem when I want to post data to my apache solr hosted in another server. (This may not be the perfect answer but it solves my problem.)

Follow this URL: Using Mode-Rewrite for proxying, I add this line to my httpd.conf:

 RewriteRule ^solr/(.*)$ http://ip:8983/solr$1 [P]

Therefore, I can just post data to /solr instead of posting data to http://ip:8983/solr/*. Then it will be posting data in the same origin.