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[Nick Lothian <nick.lothian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adrian,

Good to know this is a known issue.

Why does the client need to see custom headers from the server anyway?
I know the client needs to pass the authorisation header to the server, but
I haven't seen any of the APIs yet that return custom headers. (It's likely
I'm missing them though)

Nick
 On Apr 23, 2012 5:40 PM, "Adrian Smith" <adrian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> I did some work with CORS a few months back [1].
>
> At the time I couldn't get any browser to work properly with CORS so I
> just parked the code. The problem was lack of support for the
> Access-Control-Expose-Headers header.
>
> According to the Chrome bug report [2] this issue may well be fixed
> now so I need to retest.
>
> Adrian
>
> [1]
> http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg07219.html
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=87338
>
>
> On 23 April 2012 06:19, Nick Lothian <nick.lothian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been playing with the Nova APIs from Javascript, and I've run into a
> > problem.
> >
> > The very first thing one needs to do to use the APIs is to get a token.
> >
> > That requires a POST to the API endpoint. Using curl & trystack that
> looks
> > like this:
> >
> > $ curl -k -X 'POST' -v https://nova-api.trystack.org:5443/v2.0/tokens -d
> > '{"auth":{"passwordCredentials":{"username": "<username>",
> > "password":"<password>"}}}' -H 'Content-type: application/json'
> >
> >
> > The Javascript equivalent (using JQuery) is:
> >
> >     $.ajax({
> >         url: "https://nova-api.trystack.org:5443/v2.0/tokens";,
> >         type: 'POST',
> >         headers: {"Content-Type": "application/json"},
> >         data:  {"auth":{"passwordCredentials":{"username":"<username>",
> > "password":"<password>"}}},
> >         success: function(data) { alert(data); }
> >     });
> >
> > That fails because the call is cross-domain, and Nova doesn't support
> CORS
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing). <script>
> based
> > cross-domain requests only supports GET requests, so that doesn't work
> > either.
> >
> > I have raised a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/987044, but
> I'm
> > really hoping someone can point out something obvious I'm missing here.
> >
> > Regards
> >   Nick Lothian
> >
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