HTTP OPTIONS error in Phil Sturgeon's Codeigniter Restserver and Backbone.js
I encountered exactly the same problem. To solve it I have a MY_REST_Controller.php in core and all my REST API controllers use it as a base class. I simply added a constructor like this to handle OPTIONS requests.
function __construct() { header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'); header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-API-KEY, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Access-Control-Request-Method"); header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE"); $method = $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']; if($method == "OPTIONS") { die(); } parent::__construct();}This just checks if the request type is OPTIONS and if so just dies out which return a code 200 for the request.
You can also modify the $allowed_http_methods property in your subclass to exclude the options method. Previous versions of REST_controller did nothing with OPTIONS and adding this line seems to mimic that behavior:
protected $allowed_http_methods = array('get', 'delete', 'post', 'put');