How to get a cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) post request working

Question

I have a machine on my local lan (machineA) that has two web servers. The first is the in-built one in XBMC (on port 8080) and displays our library. The second server is a

Answer 1

Took me some time to find the solution.

In case your server response correctly and the request is the problem, you should add withCredentials: true to the xhrFields in the request:

$.ajax({
    url: url,
    type: method,
    // This is the important part
    xhrFields: {
        withCredentials: true
    },
    // This is the important part
    data: data,
    success: function (response) {
        // handle the response
    },
    error: function (xhr, status) {
        // handle errors
    }
});

Note: jQuery >= 1.5.1 is required