Extjs to call a RESTful webservice - ajax

Question

I am trying to make a RESTful webservice call using Extjs. Below is the code i am using:
Ext.Ajax.request({ url: incomingURL ,
method: 'POST',
params: {param1:p1, param2:p2},
success: function(responseObject){
var obj = Ext.decode(responseObject.responseText);
alert(obj);
},
failure: function(responseObject){
var obj = Ext.decode(responseObject.responseText);
alert(obj);
}
});
but it does not work, the request is sent using OPTIONS method instead of POST.
I also tried to do the same thing using below code but result is the same:
var conn = new Ext.data.Connection();
conn.request({
url: incomingURL,
method: 'POST',
params: {param1:p1, param2:p2},
success: function(responseObject)
{
Ext.Msg.alert('Status', 'success');
},
failure: function(responseObject)
{
Ext.Msg.alert('Status', 'Failure');
}
});
But when i tried to do the same thing using basic ajax call ( using the browser objects directly i.e. XMLHttpRequest() or ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")) it works fine and i get the response as expected.
Can anyone please help me, as i am not able to understand what i am doing wrong with extjs ajax call?

Answer 1

You can't make a standard AJAX call between domains. The URL for Ext.Ajax.request should be a relative one (relative to the script's origin).
If you want to do cross-domain calls, use a ScriptTagProxy or such.

Answer 2

The problem is exactly because of the reason ob1 and Chuck Hinson described.
I have an RESTful service, wich is running on Tomcat.
And i made a static client(no deployed to Tomcat) using ExtJs with Json reader.
I just made an html page with ExtJs integrated consuming REST service like url: http://localhost:8080/service/invoices/
And all the time ExtJs was making OPTIONS request, not GET or POST even if i was setting them as being used methods. The problem is this security feature, because Client is not the part of same application and i am doing AJAX call between domains.
As soon as i put my client to my Web application and deployed to Tomcat and started using relative calls it started working.

Answer 3

if you don't want cross-domain request, please remove the website prefix 'http://website' from propery url of ajax proxy.