$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    dataType: 'text',
    url: api,
    username: 'user',
    password: 'pass',
    crossDomain : true,
    xhrFields: {
        withCredentials: true
    }
})
    .done(function( data ) {
        console.log("done");
    })
    .fail( function(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        alert(xhr.responseText);
        alert(textStatus);
    });

chrome.exe --user-data-dir="C:/Chrome dev session" --disable-web-security

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  dataType: 'jsonp',
  ...... etc ......

<?php header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'); ?>

// The following property can be used to configure cross-origin resource sharing
// in the HTTP nodes.
// See https://github.com/troygoode/node-cors#configuration-options for
// details on its contents. The following is a basic permissive set of options:
httpNodeCors: {
 origin: "*",
 methods: "GET,PUT,POST,DELETE"
},

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
    next();
});

<httpProtocol>
    <customHeaders>
        <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
    </customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>

$.ajax({
    url: 'http://mysite.microsoft.sample.xyz.com/api/mycall',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    },
    type: "POST", /* or type:"GET" or type:"PUT" */
    dataType: "json",
    data: {
    },
    success: function (result) {
        console.log(result);
    },
    error: function () {
        console.log("error");
    }
});

System.Net.WebClient wc = new System.Net.WebClient();
string str = wc.DownloadString("http://mysite.microsoft.sample.xyz.com/api/mycall");

<cffunction name="optionsMethod" access="remote" output="false" returntype="any" httpmethod="OPTIONS" description="Method to respond to AngularJS trial call">
    <cfheader name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type,x-requested-with,Authorization,Access-Control-Allow-Origin">
    <cfheader name="Access-Control-Allow-Methods" value="GET,OPTIONS">
    <cfheader name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*">
    <cfheader name="Access-Control-Max-Age" value="360">
</cffunction>

Spark.get("/someRestCallToSpark", (req, res) -> {
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*"); //important, otherwise its not working
    return "some text";
 });

Ext.Ajax.request({
    url: "http://localhost:4567/someRestCallToSpark",
    useDefaultXhrHeader: false, //important, otherwise its not working
    success: function(response, opts) {console.log("success")},
    failure: function(response, opts) {console.log("failure")}
});

var yql_url = 'https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql';
var url = 'your api url';

$.ajax({
    'url': yql_url,
    'data': {
        'q': 'SELECT * FROM json WHERE url="'+url+'"',
        'format': 'json',
        'jsonCompat': 'new',
    },
    'dataType': 'jsonp',
    'success': function(response) {
        console.log(response);
    },
});

using (DBContext db = new DBContext())
{
    return db.Customers.Select(x => new
    {
        Name = x.Name,
        CustomerId = x.CustomerId,
    });
}

using (DBContext db = new DBContext())
{
    return db.Customers.Select(x => new
    {
        Name = x.Name,
        CustomerId = x.CustomerId,
    }).ToList();
}

@GET
    @Path("{id}")
    public Response getEventData(@PathParam("id") String id) throws FileNotFoundException {
        InputStream inputStream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/eventdata/" + id + ".json");
        JsonReader jsonReader = Json.createReader(inputStream);
        return Response.ok(jsonReader.readObject()).header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*").build();
    }

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  <FilesMatch ".(ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|woff2|font.css|css)$">
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

catta('./data/simple.json').then(function (res) {
  console.log(res);
});

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://foo.example

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

func main() { //API Server Code
    router := mux.NewRouter()
    //api route is /people,
    //Methods("GET", "OPTIONS") means it support GET, OPTIONS
    router.HandleFunc("/people", GetPeople).Methods("GET", "OPTIONS")
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":9091", router))
}

// method of '/people' route
func GetPeople(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

    //Allow CORS by setting * in sever response
    w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")

    w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type")
    json.NewEncoder(w).Encode("OKOK")
}

function GetPeople() {
    try {
        var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhttp.open("GET", "http://localhost:9091/people", false);
        xhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/html");
        xhttp.send();
        var response = JSON.parse(xhttp.response);
        alert(xhttp.response);
    } catch (error) { alert(error.message);}
}

window.handleData = function(data) {
  console.log(data)
};

var script = document.createElement('script');
script.setAttribute('src','https://some.api/without/cors/headers.com&callback=handleData');
document.body.appendChild(script);

opera --user-data-dir="~/Downloads/opera-session" --disable-web-security

<system.webServer>
 <httpProtocol>
    <customHeaders>
     <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
     <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
     <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Methods" value="GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS" />
    </customHeaders>
  </httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>

[EnableCors(origins: "http://clientaccessingapi.com", headers: "*", methods: "*")]

after_action :cors_set_access_control_headers

def cors_set_access_control_headers
  headers['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = '*'
  headers['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = 'POST, GET, OPTIONS'
  headers['Access-Control-Allow-Headers'] = '*'
end