I am trying to make an AJAX call to an API which requires an HTTP header (REST parameters).Currently no data is being returned. I think what is giving the most difficulty is understanding setRequestHeader, not even sure if its necessary. In this example , msdn it takes 2 string arguments: oReq.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml") but then where does the authorization header go? Please Help
Currently I have this:
var baseURL = "https://api.azuga.com/azuga-ws/v1/live/location.json";
var header = "Authorization: Basic 0JRGDJW587832"; //Made up number
$.ajax({
url: baseURL,
dataType: 'json',
beforeSend: function(xhr){xhr.setRequestHeader(header);},
success: function(data){
console.log(data);
}
});
Did you tried:
var baseURL = "https://api.azuga.com/azuga-ws/v1/live/location.json";
$.ajax({
url: baseURL,
dataType: 'json',
headers: { 'Authorization': 'Basic 0JRGDJW587832' },
beforeSend: function(xhr){xhr.setRequestHeader(header);},
success: function(data){
console.log(data);
}
});
?
also note that your header is a string, so setRequestHeader is not taking two parameters!
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I am trying to complete a GET request using $http instead of ajax. The call works perfectly with ajax, but when I try to do the same thing with $http I get a 400 (Bad Request) error. I believe I am following the Angular documentation correctly. Any ideas? Hopefully this will also be helpful for others experiencing the same issue.
The ajax code that works:
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
accept: 'application/json',
url: myURL,
headers: {"Authorization": "Basic " + basicKey},
dataType: "json",
contentType: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
data: requestPayload,
async: false
}).done(function(serverData) {
console.log(serverData.access_token);
}).fail(function(error) {
console.log(error);
});
The $http code that does not work:
var basicConfig = {
method: 'GET',
url: myURL,
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Basic ' + basicKey,
'Accept': "application/json",
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
},
data: requestPayload
}
$http(basicConfig).success(function(data, status){
console.log(status);
}).error(function(data, status){
console.log(status);
});
Thanks in advance.
use params instead of data. data is the request body, used for POST requests, whereas params is for query string variables in GET requests.
Hello I'm performing a GET request on a RESTful Rails resource, like so:
function getGroups(category) {
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: 'http://localhost:3000/groups.json',
data: JSON.stringify({"access_token":"569669d8df0456", "category":category }),
success: function(data) {alert(data)},
contentType: "application/json",
dataType: 'json'
});
});
getGroups("own_groups");
The problem is that Webrick server errors out like this:
ERROR bad URI
`/groups.json?{%22access_token%22:%22569669d8df0456%22,%22category%22:%22own_groups%22}'.
It must be something related with how the JSON data is parsed, because I am having no problems with another GET request WITHOUT JSON data, and a POST request WITH JSON data...
Update: adding code for POST request (where JSON.stringify is required)
function addGroup(name, description) {
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'http://localhost:3000/groups.json',
data: JSON.stringify({"access_token":"569669d8df0456", "group_name":name, "group_description":description}),
success: function(data) { alert("ok")},
contentType: "application/json",
dataType: 'json'
});
};
addGroup("nice group", "full of people");
Do not use JSON.stringify. Simply put:
data: {"access_token":"569669d8df0456", "category":category },
Moreover, you do not need to specify complete url http://localhost:3000/groups.json, it can be just simply groups.json
I'm trying to post a photo on the users behalf. I've been searching the web for the last 4 hours and I'm out of ideas.
JS:
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/me/photos',
data: JSON.stringify({
url: 'https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png',
access_token: token
}),
success: function(data){
console.log(data);
},
error: function(a,b,c){
console.log(a+'|'+b+'|'+c);
}
})
the error function outputs the following:
[object Object]|error|Bad Request
I think there must be something wrong with the ajax request itself, but I can't figure out what it is. I've reconstructed my request using the Facebook Graph API explorer and everything works fine there. Any ideas?
Need to define the correct data type in the ajax request ( jsonp ), just try this will work :
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/me/photos',
data: JSON.stringify({
url: 'https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png',
access_token: token
}),
dataType: "jsonp", //Just add this line ( jsonp not json ),
success: function(data){
console.log(data);
},
error: function(a,b,c){
console.log(a+'|'+b+'|'+c);
}
})
I have the following jQuery AJAX request:
// collect form data and create user obj
var user = new User();
user.firstname = $("#usrFirstName").val();
user.lastname = $("#usrSurname").val();
user.role = $("#usrRole").val();
// actual ajax request
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url : 'http://awesome-url',
crossDomain: true,
data: user,
contentType:"application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: 'json'
}).done(function(data, status) {
alert(JSON.stringify(data));
}).fail(function(data, status) {
alert(status);
alert(JSON.stringify(data));
});
The response from the Server is:
"status":400,"statusText":"Bad Request"
"The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect."
The server is running Spring-MVC. But as far as I can tell it is working correctly. Because if I'm sending a request manually with Postman and the following configuration it works.
Header:
Content-Type application/json; charset=utf-8
Content:
{"firstname":"alex","lastname":"lala","role":"admin"}
I have to mention that it is a cross-domain request (for the time developing, it will be hosted on the same domain as the server later). I did disable the security settings in the browser and AJAX requests to the server are working fine (as long as I don't have to send data).
you need to serialize your json, try:
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url : 'http://awesome-url',
crossDomain: true,
data: JSON.stringify(user),
contentType:'application/json; charset=utf-8',
dataType: 'json'
})
JSON.stringify() method is used to turn a javascript object into json string. You need to have this. In addition it is better to include success and error portions in the AJAX.
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url : 'http://awesome-url',
crossDomain: true,
data: JSON.stringify(user), // turn a javascript object into json string
contentType:'application/json; charset=utf-8',
dataType: 'json',
success: function (html) {
alert(html);
}, error: function (error) {
alert(error);
}
})
I have to issues:
1) I've tried using JsonP, but can't get POSTing to work. Essentially, I'm trying to authenticate with an API, passing a Base64-encoded namevaluepair in the header over HTTPS.
2) How do I pass this key/value in the header? Any help would be appreciated! Here is an example of what I want, though this obviously doesn't work:
// where does this go?
var headerString = 'user=' + encodeURIComponent(username + ':' + password);
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "https://anotherurl.on.another.server/LOGIN",
data: "I have no data, I'm logging in with header authentication",
dataType: "json",
success: function(data) {
},
error: function(data){
}
});
add headers to ajax call:
var headerObj = {'user': encodeURIComponent(username + ':' + password)};
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "https://anotherurl.on.another.server/LOGIN",
data: "I have no data, I'm logging in with header authentication",
dataType: "json",
headers: headerObj,
success: function(data) {
},
error: function(data){
}
});
The best way to do this is probably through a server side proxy on your own domain.
See this page for tips.
This way you will be able to get the response from the other server