lstak/Backbone.SharePoint — pull request #7 by RainerAtSpirit (2012-03-13 10:58:00+00:00)
Title: Merge support through tunnel

While testing in IE7 and IE8 I encountered an issue that those browser doesn't support the MERGE HTTP verb.
According to http://www.odata.org/developers/protocols/operations#MethodTunnelingthroughPOST and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328025.aspx#BKMK_SetRequestHeaderHTTPMethodJQUERY method tunneling is the recommend way to deal with that situation.

Here's a quick hack that works in my environment, but hasn't been fully tested.

Rainer