Re: CORS request not working

Anonymous
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CORS request not working

I'm currently trying to retrieve and send data from Marketo's API. The problem is : my web platform is Salesforce Community. If I understand correctly this web tool, I'm not allowed to use anything else than pure javascript.

I've built a CORS request like this :

function createCORSRequest(method, url) {

  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

  if ("withCredentials" in xhr) {

    xhr.open(method, url, true);

  } else if (typeof XDomainRequest != "undefined") {

    xhr = new XDomainRequest();

    xhr.open(method, url);

  } else {

    xhr = null;

  }

  return xhr;

}

function makeCorsRequest() {

  var url = document.getElementById('url').value;

  var xhr = createCORSRequest('GET', url);

  if (!xhr) {

    alert('CORS not supported');

    return;

  }

  xhr.onload = function() {

    var text = xhr.responseText;

    alert('Response from CORS request to ' + url + 'is : ' + text);

  };

  xhr.onerror = function() {

    alert('Woops, there was an error making the request.');

  };

 

  xhr.send();

}

With the help of http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/, but the server doesn't seem to accept the request since this error comes back :

"No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://testurl…' is therefore not allowed access."

Does anyone know if Marketo's API accepts CORS requests? Or maybe have an idea that would help me solve this? Thank you very much.

2 REPLIES 2
Kenny_Elkington
Marketo Employee

Re: CORS request not working

I responded over on StackOverflow: Call Marketo API using javascript only - Stack Overflow​  There are probably other options depending on what exactly you're trying to accomplish.

SanfordWhiteman
Level 10 - Community Moderator

Re: CORS request not working

The REST API should never be used by directly customer-facing applications.  It's intended to be used in server-to-server contexts, preferably using bulk operations.  If you explain in full what you are actually trying to accomplish, as Kenny said, we can give you some pointers.