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JavaScript

Posted by Angelina Bethoney
Angelina Bethoney
117 Points

POST data to Google Spreadsheet, CORS

Hi, I'm trying to send form data from my website to a google docs spreadsheet. I've followed these instructions: https://wiki.base22.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=72942000

I'm receiving this error: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:9000' is therefore not allowed access.

I've tried adding headers to my ajax call (Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *), and tried to use JSON-P, but neither of these have worked. Any help is much appreciated!! Here's my ajax call:

 $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            crossDomain: true,
            url: url,
            data: {"entry.1415540910":first_name,
                 "entry.463264812": last_name,
                 "entry.645413332": email,
                 "entry.978444430":phone,
                 "entry.1368796298":comments
                },
            dataType: 'json',
            success: function() {
                  $('#contact_form').html("<div id='message'></div>");
                  $('#message').html("<h2>Contact Form Submitted!</h2>")
                   .append("<p>We will be in touch soon.</p>")
                   .hide()
                   .fadeIn(1500, function() {
                        $('#message').append("<img id='checkmark'  />");
                   });
             }
       });

please help!

1 Answer

Pedro Sousa
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Pedro Sousa
Python Development Techdegree Student 18,546 Points
Pedro Sousa
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Pedro Sousa
Python Development Techdegree Student 18,546 Points

Hello Angelina!

I must confess that I actually never did this. But, my 'guess' is that you should be getting the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header from YOUR server response so that you can then perform an ajax request to another server/domain.

So you must set the header value on the server side.

So, since we're in the Javascript topic I will assume your (maybe) using express? (eheh)

If so, in a request handler function with the response object accessible, you should be able to set the header with something like:

function(req,res){
  res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
}

Cheers! Pedro