[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace API and XMLHttpRequests

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi Hillel,

For development purposes, you can get around the cross domain issue by
starting Chrome with the disable-web-security flag:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3102819/disable-same-origin-policy-in-chrome

For the Postman case you described, it sounds like you need to hit the
login endpoint first, get back the session key, and then add that to your
search request headers (there's a little dropdown in Postman for this)
using 'X-ArchivesSpace-Session' as the header key.

Hope this helps,

Brian




On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Arnold, Hillel <harnold at rockarch.org>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I’ve been hacking together a proof-of-concept single page web app which
> makes a couple of API calls against ArchivesSpace and returns/displays a
> bunch of data about a particular archival component.
> Because I am not really a programmer, I’m just making a XMLHttpRequest
> with JQuery. However, I’m running into a couple problems.
> First, when I try to post to my username and password so I can get back a
> session token, I’m getting an error related to cross domain requesting
> saying the requested resource doesn’t have an Access-Control-Allow-Origin
> header set. It seems like I’d need to set those header somewhere
> server-side (maybe in the app config settings somewhere), but I’m not sure
> where exactly that would be. The existing examples out there for working
> with the ArchivesSpace API seem to mostly be command-line tools, which
> wasn’t really helping me. I’m sure there are people out there who have done
> this, either specifically with ArchivesSpace or with other Ruby apps, so if
> you know how to do this or can point me to a link which tells me how to do
> it, I’d be most grateful!
> Second, unless I am reading the documentation wrong (which is very
> likely), I think I should be able to make a get request like:
> http://some_url:8089/search?q=cats&page=1 and get back search results.
> However, when I test that URL out in Postman I’m getting a 403 error. Am I
> missing something here?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Hillel Arnold
> Lead Digital Archivist
> Rockefeller Archive Center
>
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