Open Austin Hack Night Presentation

no server github pages to serve static files static data like route shapes are stored in the repo as json to fetch them just make an ajax request .e.g /data/shape_801_1.json

ajax + cors what is cors? browsers block you from making ajax requests to all sites unless the site explicitly permits it.

two ways the server can explicitly allow it

• send back a jsonp response
• send back allow-access-control headers

how do you talk to APIs that are shitty and don't send the right cors headers? use a proxy how do you get a proxy without