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[Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/24/2012 11:19 AM, Nick Lothian wrote:
> JSONP is great, but won't work with POST requests.

Hmm, good point.

> I don't quite understand what "Due to the redirect nature of the auth
> system" means, though. 
> 
> If I use a custom Webkit browser & allow cross domain XMLHttpRequests it
> works fine - I do a POST to /v2.0/tokens, get the token and then use
> that. What am I missing?

The Auth system will give you a token and then a new "management" url
where the actual commands are issued (the real Nova API endpoint). These
are often two different systems (domains), so cross-site requests are
mandatory.

-S



> Nick
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Due to the redirect nature of the auth system we may need JSONP support
>     for this to work.
> 
> 
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