CORS Blocks Requests for Resources on another Server

that includes the domain you're using or a * wildcard, then you won't be able to access the resource in a browser from another domain.

You can look in the network tab of your browser. For example here's the Headers section for a request showing the Response Headers section. You can see the access-control-allow-origin is set to * which means browser will allow the data to be pulled regardless of what domain your actually on.

You have to either get the server to add an entry for your domain or you have to use a proxy server in order to use the resource.

This is a good, 2min video with an overview:

Kinda a bummer if you're trying to use an API. Alas, that's the way of the thing.

-a