How to send a token with an AJAX request from jQuery
You can set the headers in a $.ajax request:
$.ajax({ url: "http://localhost:8080/login", type: 'GET', // Fetch the stored token from localStorage and set in the header headers: {"Authorization": localStorage.getItem('token')}});
If you are using JWT authentication then this is how you add it to the headers in .ajax() method:
headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer '+token},
I use the approach below to cover JWT authentication with the result status types
$.ajax({ url: "http://localhost:8080/login", type: "POST", headers: { Authorization: $`Bearer ${localStorage.getItem("token")}` }, data: formData, error: function(err) { switch (err.status) { case "400": // bad request break; case "401": // unauthorized break; case "403": // forbidden break; default: //Something bad happened break; } }, success: function(data) { console.log("Success!"); }});