[jQuery] Autocomplete + type:"post" not working - still receiving $_GET data

[jQuery] Autocomplete + type:"post" not working - still receiving $_GET data


I'm trying to implement the autocomplete and everything has worked
fine up to switching from $_GET to $_POST. The framework i'm using
does not work well with $_GET data.
I've tried the following:
1. - in jquery.autocomplete.js I added type:"post"
2. - in my view I've added the same:
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#client_name").autocomplete("edit_customer/search/", {
scroll: true,
scrollHeight: 300,
autoFill: true,
cacheLength: 1,
max: 20,
matchContains: false,
type: "POST",
    });
});
3. - Added ajaxSetup({ type:"post" )};
None of these seem to work as I've been watching the firebug console
and it still sends as GET. Also when I added the type="post" to
autocomplete.js it threw a couple of errors. Only when I moved it to
my view did it seem to act o.k.