Ajax GET requests to an ASP.NET Page Method?

Question

A situation I ran across this week: we have a jQuery Ajax call that goes back to the server to get data

$.ajax(
{
    type: \"POST\",
    contentType: \"appl         


        

Answer 1

For security reasons, ASP.Net AJAX page methods only support POST requests.

Answer 2

It is true that ASP.NET AJAX page methods only support POST requests for security reasons but you can override this behavior by decorating your WebMethod with this these both attribute:

[WebMethod]
[ScriptMethod(UseHttpGet = true)]

I felt that the accepted answer was incomplete without pointing out a work around.