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[Nick Lothian <nick.lothian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Javascript *can* set custom headers, but only by using XMLHttpRequest. That
cannot work cross-domain unless the appropriate CORS headers are set.

Hence this issue :)
On Apr 25, 2012 12:21 AM, "Adam Young" <ayoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On 04/24/2012 10:19 AM, Nick Lothian wrote:
>
> JSONP is great, but won't work with POST requests.
>
>  I don't quite understand what "Due to the redirect nature of the auth
> system" means, though.
>
>
> Sorry, I am working on a few things that are related.  OpenID and various
> other systems have issues along these lines that are due to the fact that
> they are done with redirects.  UI'll try to be clearer in the future.
>
>
> That actually works fine because the token is not in the header when it
> comes from Keystone.  However,  if you were to post toa web app that then
> needed to make your browser post to a remote system (which is where the
> same origin policy comes in to play)  you need to set that Auth token into
> a custom header,  and Javascript is forbidden to do that.  Yes,  the
> Javascript can say "post to glance" or some other openstack API server,
> but it can't set the X auth header with the token from Keystone in order to
> make the call authenticated.
>
>
>
>
>  Nick
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sandy Walsh <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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