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Re: Using Nova APIs from Javascript: possible?

 

Jsonp sucks (get only) but might be the best choice. That's generally how AWS supports these use cases, fwiw. 

On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:49 AM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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