Angularjs http basic auth with username and password for Pivotal Tracker api

Question

I'm trying to develop an application to get the Pivotal Tracker stories. First of all I need to do basic authentication to get my Pivotal Tracker token.

Using PHP cURL, I'm doing like this,

curl -X GET --user vader:bad_word "https://www.pivotaltracker.com/services/v5/me"

I want this to be done with Angular. I have tried,

$http.defaults.headers.common['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' + login + ':' + password);

but it shows,

Request header field Authorization is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers.

any suggestions to get done?

Thanks in advance. :)

Answer 1

Pivotal Tracker have not yet support client side username and password validation method. Currently they are supporting only X-Token method from client side. If we want to do this, we have to use server side scripting only.

check here : validation can only be done with token and not with "username/password"

and generating the token should done in server side.

Each individual Pivotal Tracker login may be associated with a unique API Token value, which serves as a single-factor authentication for API requests. API tokens are allocated and copied from an individual's Profile page after logging into Tracker.

Answer 2

PivotalTracker obviously do not send down the correct CORS headers maybe? This would need to be in the http response header of the pre-flight HTTP OPTION call.

Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Authorization

You can see these links for more info:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/

http://enable-cors.org/

http://community.pivotaltracker.com/pivotal/topics/cors_stopped_working_on_api_calls_today