OAuth2 - Status 401 on OPTIONS request while retrieving TOKEN
Our stack uses Backbone as our client-side app and Spring Boot as a RESTful API. We're trying to make basic authentication using OAuth2 with user providing username and password. We use Spring Security for authentication and jQuery $.ajax method for making requests. However the response we get is 401(unauthorized) status on preflight OPTIONS request before we can even POST header with our secret to authorize. However we can POST or GET any other resource without any problems. Server response for OPTIONS request is 200(ok) and then it follows up with POST request. So why is that an OPTIONS