Cross domain post

We haven't spent much time looking at Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) with Breeze yet but with the recent release of Breeze 0.70.1 we now support for the ability to completely customize or replace any ajax communication between the breeze client and the web service on the server.  This obviously includes the ability to specify CORS headers in any Ajax request.  So assuming that you are going thru the ASP.NET Web API provider and that your service is configured to support CORS, breeze should be able to talk to it.  

Unfortunately, we haven't seen much from Microsoft regarding how to configure ASP.NET Web Api to support CORS, but we assume that it is possible.

Again, we have not yet gotten around to testing this, so please let us know of your progress in this direction.

The Breeze documentation on our Ajax support is still in progress, but hopefully the following will get you started.

To control the headers on every ajax request that breeze makes you can execute the following code when your app first starts up.

     var ajaxImpl = breeze.core.config.getAdapterInstance("ajax");
     ajaxImpl.defaultSettings = {
           headers: {
               // any CORS or other headers that you want to specify.
               "X-Test-Header": "foo2"
           },
    };
  
Alternatively, you can intercept the individual ajax calls and add your headers selectively based on the request.

     var ajaxImpl = breeze.core.config.getAdapterInstance("ajax");
     ajaxImpl.defaultSettings = {
           beforeSend: function(jqXHR, settings) {
                  // examine the jqXHR or settings and customize the headers accordingly.
                  jqXHR.setRequestHeader("X-Test-Before-Send-Header", "foo2");
           }
     };

Hi Marcel,