# CORS error accessing API from javascript application

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**Created:** [September 17, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cors-error-accessing-api-from-javascript-application/128785 "2019-09-17T12:49:29Z")\
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This would be a good answer for me except that I cannot get header based auth to work so I am attempting to do it with forms and am also getting CSRF. Any solution? I am trying to create a new topic using the API.

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