为什么ajax总是404,AJAX的404失败了……但还是管用？什么给予？

Maybe I should just keep my mouth shut and move forward, but something tells me things aren't working as nicely as I think they are and I need to fix it.

Basically, I'm doing a simple AJAX call to tell the server what the user has selected: an already existing project or a new project. The AJAX looks like this:

var dataString = 'existingProject='+ $("#existingProject").val() + '&newProjName=' + $("#newProjName").val();

//AJAX call to post selections to server

$.post('/myproj/manageProjects.html',dataString);

The Spring MVC signature that handles this post call looks like this:

@RequestMapping(value="/manageProjects",produces="application/json",method=RequestMethod.POST)

public StatusResponse manageProjects(

@RequestParam(value="existingProject",required=false) String existingProj,

@RequestParam(value="newProjName",required=false) String newProj,

HttpSession session){

What's blowing my mind is, I am getting the call into manageProjects with the correct variables and values I expect. The server handles the request and returns a pojo I created called StatusResponse wrapping a boolean (success or failure) and a list of server feedback messages. I create one with the simple status of "true" for success and pass it back.

The client then throws up a 404 manageProjects.html not found and continues on its merry way as though nothing has gone wrong.

So....did it find it or not? If a StatusResponse-type pojo is an inappropriate response from a Spring MVC controller, what IS the right response? Why would the message successfully hit the controller but then the client receive a 404?!

Thanks for any insight....

Footnote: apologies if this looks similar to an earlier question from today. I came at the core problem from the wrong angle and created more confusion than necessary in that posting...