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Posted: **27 May 2022 18:24**

Hi

I have an older application that used below to control VLC via an Ajax call

 $.ajax({
      url: "http://192.168.0.76:8080/requests/status.xml?command=pl_next"
    });

Now I understand that http requests need a password.

I tried this url in the browser, and it works

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http://:mypassword@192.168.0.76:8080/requests/status.xml?command=pl_next

but it does not when using it in the Ajax call

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 $.ajax({
      url: "http://:mypassword@192.168.0.76:8080/requests/status.xml?command=pl_next"
    });

Can someone help?

Thanks

Daniel

Posted: **20 Jul 2022 16:56**

$.ajax implies that you want to do that in a browser, most likely from a different webserver than vlc's builtin one. That again means that your problem is CORS.
VLC webserver does not allow CORS because the responses of the builtin webserver do not include the "access-control" headers for some reason.
That means you cannot access anything directly from the browser. Instead you need to either proxy calls to VLC on your own webserver or you run your page using VLC's builtin webserver.
E.g. alter the files in VLC\lua\http\

Another solution and discussion about this is here:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/8848

On the other hand, if this is just about the authentification part, look up how to add "auth basic" headers with ajax.

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