[annotator-dev] Annotator store flask

Mon Apr 30 15:49:11 UTC 2012

On 30 April 2012 11:54, johnny jiang <johnny.nan.jiang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Nick, I've modified store.py to allow all the headers (including the
> old ones), just to get it working first.
>
> What I'm trying to do is to integrate the annotator with Wordpress,
> especially the authentication bit, permission is next step, followed by yuma

That's fantastic. Would you be able to submit a patch to the existing
wordpress plugin for annotator:

<http://github.com/okfn/annotator-wordpress>

> (image annotator) as I'm looking at the possibility to integration both the
> annotator and yuma with Wordpress.

Great :-)

Rufus

> Will let you know of any progress, thanks for your help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Johnny
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Nick Stenning <nick at whiteink.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 06:39, johnny jiang <johnny.nan.jiang at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.cxware.net:5000/annotations.
>> > Request
>> > header field x-annotator-auth-token-issue-time is not allowed by
>> > Access-Control-Allow-Headers.
>>
>> Hi Johnny,
>>
>> This is a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) error. Annotator uses
>> CORS in order to be able to communicate with the backend across
>> domains.
>>
>> In particular, this error implies that your backend isn't sending the
>> headers it needs to in order to let the browser know that the
>> cross-origin requests it's making are allowed. You can find out which
>> headers you need to set by looking at the `after_request` hook in the
>> reference annotator-store:
>>
>>
>>  https://github.com/okfn/annotator-store/blob/master/annotator/store.py#L29
>>
>> That said, from the looks of your error, you may well be sending the
>> right headers at the backend but using an outdated version of the
>> Annotator Auth plugin. Support for the
>> "X-Annotator-Auth-Token-Issue-Time" header was removed in version
>> 0.7.0 of the Annotator Store and version 1.2.0 of the Annotator.
>>
>> Hope that sets you off in the right direction.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Nick
>
>
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