If I take the same amount of time writing this article as I did finding the problem, then this article would probably be 50,000 words long.  However; I also know that articles are supposed to help individuals quickly solve problems and be enjoyable to read therefore; I had to adjust accordingly.  I found this solution after hours on the internet trying to solve a problem that was created when I upgraded the jquery library from 1.6.1 to 1.8.3.  I cannot prove (yet) that Jquery ultimately caused this problem but I can say that when I use any development tool at my disposal I see something quite interesting.  Let’s play a game of what’s different.  Look at following two sets of code and tell me what is different between them.  There is a lot of other code but this is what is important.

CODE A

[code language=”javascript”]
$.ajax({
url: "/api/Contact",
data: JSON.stringify(dataString),
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/json;charset=utf-8",
statusCode: {
201: function (newMovie) { success(newMovie); },
400: function (xhr) {
var errors = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
fail(errors);
}
}
});
[/code]

CODE B

[code language=”javascript”]
$.ajax({
url: "/api/Contact/",
data: JSON.stringify(dataString),
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/json;charset=utf-8",
statusCode: {
201: function (newMovie) { success(newMovie); },
400: function (xhr) {
var errors = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
fail(errors);
}
}
});
[/code]

Did you catch it? It is very easy to miss. If you saw it in line 2 then you win.  You see without the ‘/’ at the end no matter what else I tried it sends the request as a GET even if you declare it a POST.  You can see from the screen shots below the result of CODE A and CODE B.  This problem did not rear its ugly head until I upgraded to Jquery 1.8.

CODE A RESULTS

CODE B RESULTS 

This proved to take hours the other day to find but 30 seconds to correct.  I hope you enjoyed reading this article while also getting to play a small game.  If not then let me know and I can try and send you my first draft of this article. I have yet to actually find the real reason for this but nevertheless this solved my problem.  Time to move onto the next problem.

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