JQuery Ajax call gives 404 'Resource Not Found' Error but normal URL call is fine

Question

I have a weird problem when using JQuery call in my ASP.NET MVC project. I found that the Ajax call gives 404 ( resource not found error). But when I use the usual URL GET c

Answer 1

Use Firefox Firebug add on, and watch what request gets made by Jquery...

Is it possible that the page that this Jquery runs in is in a subdirectory, in which case the request will not be relative root as the http://myapp/ "typed in" url is?

Also, I am guessing the code you specified above is not actually the code you are using (which is completely reasonable, I rairly post code as-is). Because

$.getJSON("ViewRecord/GetSoftwareChoice", {username='123'},

the = sign between username and '123' is invalid JS as far as I know. So I'm betting there is some goofy detail in the the real code that is causing the problem.