Hi Ben,
Your browser making OPTIONS requests is indicative of a cross domain request that requires CORS to be enabled within CouchDB. The issue is that by default in the browser, you can't make an ajax request from one domain to another. -Russell On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:09 AM, I.R. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What is the simplest way to POST docs to the database from the browser > > using ajax? > > open /_utils and use Futon's JQuery lib inside the browser console to POST > via Ajax - this should prevent you from the x-domain issue
