How to get a cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) post request working

Question

I have a machine on my local lan (machineA) that has two web servers. The first is the in-built one in XBMC (on port 8080) and displays our library. The second server is a

Answer 1

I solved my own problem when using google distance matrix API by setting my request header with Jquery ajax. take a look below.

var settings = {
          'cache': false,
          'dataType': "jsonp",
          "async": true,
          "crossDomain": true,
          "url": "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?units=metric&origins=place_id:"+me.originPlaceId+"&destinations=place_id:"+me.destinationPlaceId+"®ion=ng&units=metric&key=mykey",
          "method": "GET",
          "headers": {
              "accept": "application/json",
              "Access-Control-Allow-Origin":"*"
          }
      }

      $.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
          console.log(response);

      });

Note what i added at the settings
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"headers": {
          "accept": "application/json",
          "Access-Control-Allow-Origin":"*"
      }

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I hope this helps.