jQuery AJAX Header Authorisation

Question

I\'m trying to authorise an AJAX query based on this tutorial. It sets the request headers before send with the appropriate authorisation information by using the Crypto lib

Answer 1

The issue was not setting the dataType to JSONP. As this was not done the browser interpreted the call as a standard AJAX request which meant it was being blocked under same-origin-policy.

Working code for reference (credit goes to @pdeschen for suggesting Crpyto):