[Connotea-code-devel] api help - basic authentication

[Ganguly, A. <aga...@so...>]

Hello,

  I'm attempting to use the api to add and retrieve content. Saw the
javascript code under http://www.connotea.org/wiki/WebAPIAuthentication

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Basically replicated it to,

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request =3D window.XMLHttpRequest ? new XMLHttpRequest() : new
ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0");

if (!request)

  alert("Error initializing XMLHttpRequest!");

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var url =3D "http://www.connotea.org/data/noop";

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request.open("GET", url, true); --------------------------fails here

request.setRequestHeader("Authorization",
"Basic"+btoa(login+":"+password));

request.onreadystatechange =3D handleResponse;

request.send(null);

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handle Response is this,

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if (request.readyState =3D=3D 4)

       if (request.status =3D=3D 200)

         alert("Server is done!");

       else if (request.status =3D=3D 404)

         alert("Request URL does not exist");

       else

         alert("Error: status code is " + request.status);=20

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Now it seems like request.open only works on files on the localhost. If
that's true connotea will always return a 'permission denied to call
open()'.

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Is there a way around this? The goal is to do any authentication/
response handling in the background w/o showing any of the ugly response
headers.

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I expect to run into a similar issue on trying to do a post request
using HttpRequest.

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Can someone help please.

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Arindam Ganguly

Calit2, UCSD

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