title: Does the jQuery ajax call support PATCH?
body: <p>When I send this ajax rquest: </p>
  
  <pre><code>$.ajax({
              headers : {
                  'Accept' : 'application/json',
                  'Content-Type' : 'application/json'
              },
              url : 'http://localhost:8080/wutup/venues/12',
              type : 'PATCH',
              data : JSON.stringify({description: "842490812321309213801923 gonzagazors"}),
              success : function(response, textStatus, jqXhr) {
                  console.log("Venue Successfully Patched!");
              },
              error : function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                  // log the error to the console
                  console.log("The following error occured: " + textStatus, errorThrown);
              },
              complete : function() {
                  console.log("Venue Patch Ran");
              }
          });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I receive this error: </p>
  
  <p>XMLHttpRequest cannot load http ://localhost:8080/wutup/venues/12. Method PATCH is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Methods.</p>
  
  <p>However, using curl:</p>
  
  <pre><code> $ curl -v -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X PATCH -    d' {"address": "8421 Gonzaga Ave"}'  http://localhost:8080/wutup/venues/12 
  
  About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
  Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
  Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
  PATCH /wutup/venues/12 HTTP/1.1
  User-Agent: curl/7.21.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.3
  Host: localhost:8080
  Accept: application/json
  Content-type: application/json
  Content-Length: 57
  
  HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
  Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
  Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:14:35 GMT
  
  Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
  Closing connection #0
  </code></pre>