<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sante, thank you very very much! Further testing reveals that that was indeed the problem -- as you know (but others might not), Rails checks for an authenticity_token in POSTs if protect_from_forgery is turned on (which it is by default).<div><br></div><div>So with a very little more work I was able to figure out how to get that token included in Ajax requests, details at <a href="http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/05/rails-authenticity-token-with-jquery">http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/05/rails-authenticity-token-with-jquery</a>. Very slick solution, implemented in a few lines in only two files of the dozens that make up the typical Rails application.<div><br><div>
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