I'm trying to call the 'tariff' action of my 'countries' controller using jQuery ajax() and pass it a country name in the following format:

/countries/tariff/countryname

however, with the following code ( set to GET ), it is calling this with the get '?' added:

/countries/tariff/?countryname

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#CountriesIndexForm select').change(function(){			
    	$.ajax({
    		type: "GET",

    		url: "/countries/tariff/",

    		data: escape($(this).val()),

    		success: function(html){

    			$(this).parent().next('div').html(html);

    		}
    	});
    });	
});

I understand its because the type: is set to GET, but is there a fix for this?