# CORS error accessing API from javascript application

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**Category:** Development\
**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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**Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cors-error-accessing-api-from-javascript-application/128785/2 "2019-09-17T12:52:56Z")

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We will need more information to be able to help. Can you share a code snippet showing how you are trying to use the header based authentication?

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