title: AJAX https POST requests using jquery fail in Firefox
body: <p>I have a simple list of records in an HTML table with a delete link for each row.  The delete link shoots off an AJAX post request to a fixed url that looks like: "<code>/delete/record/5</code>"</p>
  
  <p>The AJAX request is created using jquery's <code>.ajax()</code> call with a POST message when running on a server that uses https.  This call fails in Firefox 3 on OSX/Windows architectures.  It works on all other browsers I've tested (OSX/Windows: Chrome, Safari, IE7.)  </p>
  
  <p>The requests are coming from an https site and going to the same https site.  But I think somewhere during the process the original request starts off as http and there is a redirect attempt on our server to send it from http->https and Firefox rejects that redirect as some type of forgery.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone had experience doing <code>.ajax()</code> JQuery calls on an https site with Firefox?  I notice something odd where if the request has "<code>?var=xxx</code>" arguments in the URL, the request seems to work more often then if it does not have those variables.</p>