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

This is a little late to the party, but I have been struggling with this for a couple of days. It is possible and none of the answers I found here have worked. It's deceptively simple. Here's the .ajax call:

Here's the php on the server side:

    
    
     
     
    
      connect_error) {
        die( "Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
      }
      $sql = "SELECT email, status, userdata  FROM msi.usersLive";
      $result = $conn->query($sql);
      if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
      while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo $row["email"] . ":" . $row["status"] . ":" . $row["userdata"] .  "
";
      }
    } else {
      echo "{ }";
    }
    $conn->close();
    ?>