jQuery XML REST Access-Control-Allow-Origin

Question

I am calling Version One REST API and keep getting XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://www10.v1host.com/... Origin http://localhost:8080 is not allowed by Access-Contro

Answer 1

It is not possible as long as the server of the REST API (not your server) allows the request from a different origin by setting the CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) HTTP header, for example by setting the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" HTTP header in the response:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

or

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:8080

However what you can do is call your own server with Ajax, then use your own server as a kind of proxy to make a call to the other server in a different domain, parse the XML or HTML result with a suitable parser, and give the result back to the client:

 client --(Ajax)--> server
                    server --(HTTP)---> Site 
                    server <----------
 client <----------