Home/ Questions/Q 916217
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-15T18:01:01+00:00

I need to do a getJSON() request, but how do I pass authorisation and

  • 0

I need to do a getJSON() request, but how do I pass authorisation and custom headers?

I am getting issues that the request header is taking the name, but NOT the values. The URL is being shown through a manual request in fiddler to being inserted in as options instead of GET/Url.

Here is an example of what we are trying to do that works fine in fiddler; how can I replicate this with the AJAX function?

GET /Service.svc/logins/gdd53535342/houses/vxcbdfsdg/people/dsgsdggd?format=json HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Fiddler
Authorization: Basic rgbg423535fa23y4436
X-PartnerKey: df3fgeg-g5g6-b55b-f3d2-dsgg353523
Host: 154.34.53.54:2757

JavaScript code:

xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

$(document).ready(function() {
  $.ajax({
    url: 'http://localhost:437/service.svc/logins/jeffrey/house/fas6347/devices?format=json',
    type: 'GET',
    datatype: 'json',
    success: function() { alert("Success"); },
    error: function() { alert('Failed!'); },
    beforeSend: setHeader       
  });   
});

function setHeader(xhr) {
  xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Basic faskd52352rwfsdfs');
  xhr.setRequestHeader('X-PartnerKey', '3252352-sdgds-sdgd-dsgs-sgs332fs3f');
}

Fiddler Normal Request Headers:

GET /service.svc/logins/jeffrey/house/fas6347/devices?format=json HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Fiddler
Authorization: Basic faskd52352rwfsdfs
X-PartnerKey: 3252352-sdgds-sdgd-dsgs-sgs332fs3f
Host: localhost:437

Fiddler Through Ajax() Request Headers:

OPTIONS service.svc/logins/jeffrey/house/fas6347/devices?format=json HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:437
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Origin: http://ipv4.fiddler:61975
Access-Control-Request-Method: GET
Access-Control-Request-Headers: authorization,x-partnerkey
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    I agree with sunetos that you’ll have to use the $.ajax function in order to pass request headers. In order to do that, you’ll have to write a function for the beforeSend event handler, which is one of the $.ajax() options. Here’s a quick sample on how to do that:

    <html>
  <head>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function() {
        $.ajax({
          url: 'service.svc/Request',
          type: 'GET',
          dataType: 'json',
          success: function() { alert('hello!'); },
          error: function() { alert('boo!'); },
          beforeSend: setHeader
        });
      });

      function setHeader(xhr) {
        xhr.setRequestHeader('securityCode', 'Foo');
        xhr.setRequestHeader('passkey', 'Bar');
      }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Some Text</h1>
  </body>
</html>

    If you run the code above and watch the traffic in a tool like Fiddler, you’ll see two requests headers passed in:

    • securityCode with a value of Foo
    • passkey with a value of Bar

    The setHeader function could also be inline in the $.ajax options, but I wanted to call it out.

    Hope this helps!

    • 0