XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://myApiUrl/login. No
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access.

$.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: *'); ?>

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();
});

<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")}
});

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();
    }

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    dataType: 'text',
    url: https://crossorigin.me/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);
    });

<filter>
    <filter-name>CORS</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.thetransactioncompany.cors.CORSFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>CORS</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome --allow-file-access-from-files