Need assistance posting data to asp.net mvc application using jquery

I've got an MVC application that accepts eitherJSON or XML objects dpen开发者_开发知识库ding on the request type. This application is based on this article

To call a method on the MVC application that requires a complex object, I use the following Javascript (JQuery):

function GetUnassignedJob() {
if (isInteger($('#txtDay').val()) && isInteger($('#txtMonth').val()) && isInteger($('#txtYear').val()) && isInteger(intCurrentJobSummaryIndex) && intCurrentJobSummaryIndex > -1) {
    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
        url: 'http://server/api/wip/joboptimise/getlistforids/' + $('#txtYear').val() + '/' + $('#txtMonth').val() + '/' + $('#txtDay').val(),
        data: $.toJSON(aJobSummary[intCurrentJobSummaryIndex].JobIds),
        dataType: 'json',
        cache: false,
        beforeSend: function(XMLHttpRequest) { ShowLoading(); },
        success: function(data, textStatus) {
            try {
                ClearUnassignedJobs();
                AddUnassignedJobs(data);
            }
            catch (e) {
                alert('GetUnassignedJob():\r\n\r\n' + e.message);
                HideLoading();
            }
        },
        error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
            HideLoading();
            ShowStatus('unable to retrieve job list');
        },
        complete: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus) {
            HideLoading();
        }
    });
}
else {
    ShowStatus('please ensure you have entered numeric values for day, month and year');
}

}

When deployed to the server and accessed from any client on the network - everything works fine. However, when I try to to the same from the server, I receive the following error message:

Page Location: /api/wip/joboptimise/getlistforids/2010/3/10

Message: Expecting element 'root' from namespace ''.. Encountered 'None' with name '', namespace ''.

Source: System.ServiceModel.Web

Method: System.Object InternalReadObject(System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlReaderDelegator, Boolean)

Stack Trace: at System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer.InternalReadObject(XmlReaderDelegator xmlReader, Boolean verifyObjectName) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.ReadObjectHandleExceptions(XmlReaderDelegator reader, Boolean verifyObjectName) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer.ReadObject(XmlDictionaryReader reader) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer.ReadObject(Stream stream) at rbm.api.ObjectFilter.ProcessJson(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)

Some further investigation shows that the InputStream property of the HttpContext is empty! Stranger still, when I use an application like TcpTrace (so that I can see the HTTP traffic), everything works!

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,

Mark

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The prior comments are right, using local host. You could edit your hosts file located at: windows\system32\drivers\etc on your server and add an entry that maps local host to the URL

 127.0.0.1 www.xyz.com