# Error when trying to access a page through REST API. CORS?

**URL:** <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/error-when-trying-to-access-a-page-through-rest-api-cors/34230>\
**Category:** Confluence Server\
**Tags:** cors\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/error-when-trying-to-access-a-page-through-rest-api-cors/34230 "2019-12-12T08:25:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![AmirSyafrudin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/amirsyafrudin/32/38934_2.png) [@AmirSyafrudin](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/AmirSyafrudin)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/error-when-trying-to-access-a-page-through-rest-api-cors/34230/1 "2019-12-12T08:25:41Z")

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Hi all.

I’m new here so I apologize if this post breaks any of the community rules in any way possible.

On to my problem.

I’m currently trying to create a jQuery page (in my Dev server) to read pages in my Confluence server. At first try, I was blocked the same origin policy, i.e. CORS. I decided to set `Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"` in my Confluence server configuration and the problem was solved. Turns out this only solved the problem when reading pages that allow anonymous access. Another CORS error was raised when I add username and password to the ajax request in my jQuery page. However, the problem was soon solved by setting `Access-Control-Allow-Headers "authorization, content-type"` also in my Confluence server. The problem was only partially solved.

So at this point, I already set `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` and `Access-Control-Allow-Headers` in my Confluence server. From my jQuery page, I was able to read pages in my Confluence and send a valid credentials along with the request. Unfortanely, the pages that my jQuery page was able to read was still limited to pages open for anonymous access. I still can’t read pages that was limited to logged-on users.

I’ve checked the credentials and I’m certain they are valid. Whenever I send something random for the username or the password, my jQuery request was responded by a 401 error code which was authentication failed. So, I believe the source of the problem is not the credentials.

I’m still seeing this as a CORS issue, but I could be wrong. Is there something else that I should have done to solve my problem? Should I set more configuration to my Confluence server? If yes, what are those? Maybe it has something to do with the configuration **inside** Confluence application? If yes, which ones?

Any help or even pointers would be appreciated.

Thank you.