Maybe I am overlooking things, but i want to make a simple request using the Ktor Client in JS to <h...

# ktor

[Arjan van Wieringen]

Maybe I am overlooking things, but i want to make a simple request using the Ktor Client in JS to https://xkcd.com/info.0.json However, the xkcd server doesn't have CORS enabled and as such Chrome is blocking it. But I can't find how to set mode to no-cors for Ktor Client in JS.

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

So are you making a request from a browser environment?

[Arjan van Wieringen]

Yes, to a server I don't control

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Then you can’t do a cross origin request.

[Arjan van Wieringen]

But you can, when using the browser fetch API and setting mode to no-cors.

[Arjan van Wieringen]

But not using Ktor Client

[Arjan van Wieringen]

However, I decided to make my life easier and found a CORS enabled version of the API: https://github.com/mrmartineau/xkcd-api

[Arjan van Wieringen]

And voila, it works