Why does this email sending function not work? - javascript

Heres my email sending function:
function send() {
var key = "dJdJekCVAFIqvUJ13DEczZjgIh_4MyeIGEHz2GBYKFe";
var message_name = "defender_send_message";
var data = {};
data.value1 = document.getElementById('textBox').value;
data.value2 = localStorage.getItem("AdminsEmail");
var url = "https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/" + message_name + "/with/key/" + key;
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xmlhttp.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
if (xmlhttp.status == 200) {
console.log("Message Sent");
}
}
}
xmlhttp.open('POST', url, true);
xmlhttp.responseType = 'json';
xmlhttp.send(new FormData(data));
}
I wanted to create an email sending function with only pure js, not jquery or anything. I get the following errors when i click send:
(ignore the first error i fixed that already)
I had a jquery function that worked (but i had to get rid of it):
var message = localStorage.getItem("Message");
console.log(message + localStorage.getItem("AdminsEmail"));
var key = "dJdJekCVAFIqvUJ13DEczZjgIh_4MyeIGEHz2GBYKFe"; // << YOUR KEY HERE
var message_name = "defender_send_message"; // << YOUR MESSAGE NAME HERE
var url = "https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/" + message_name + "/with/key/" + key;
$.ajax({
url: url,
data: {value1: message,
value2: localStorage.getItem("AdminsEmail")},
dataType: "jsonp",
complete: function(jqXHR, textStatus) {
console.log("Message Sent");
}
});
why would this work and my other function not?

EDIT 2 : Since it seems the endpoint doesn't actually return JSON, I think your original jQuery code wasn't correct either. You need to do more research into this iftt.com platform and how to use it. From what I can tell, it's meant to be used in a mobile app, not in the browser- it would be a normal POST XHR then, and CORS doesn't apply to mobile apps. They have this page for testing the endpoint- notice that it gives you an example using curl, a command-line tool, where again CORS doesn't apply. So I think you need to rethink things, this service is not designed to be used from a browser, like you are trying to do.
EDIT: since it turns out you are actually trying to use JSONP and not a plain XHR, all you need to do is implement that without jQuery- create a script tag with the server's URL and add a URL parameter to define your callback function to handle the data. This answer should give you the solution.
In your case the code might look like this :
http://www.codeply.com/go/bp/VRCwId81Vr
function foo(data)
{
// do stuff with JSON
console.log(data)
}
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = "https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/defender_send_message/with/key/"+
"dJdJekCVAFIqvUJ13DEczZjgIh_4MyeIGEHz2GBYKFe?callback=foo";
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
Note that this doesn't work for me(but with your code, you would get Message sent printed to the console, so maybe you thought it was working?)- the response isn't JSON. Most likely the endpoint isn't actually meant to be used for JSONP?
My answer below only applies if you are trying to do a regular XHR in a browser without JSONP.
This happens because of the Cross Origin Resource Sharing policy of your browser. Your code is hosted at localhost, and it is trying to access a resource hosted at maker.ifttt.com through an XmlHttpRequest. In order to allow this to happen, the server at maker.ifttt.com would need to be configured to allow access from the localhost origin. Presumably you can not make that change as you don't control that server.
In your case, the best solution would be to make the request to maker.ifttt.com through your own server- CORS doesn't apply for server-to-server requests. Send the XmlHttpRequest to your server, take the data regarding the email from the request URL parameters, and then make the request to maker.ifttt.com using that data.

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Since you have callback=? in the URL, jQuery will generate a JSONP request instead of an XMLHttpRequest request. This executes the response as a script instead of reading the raw data.
You are manually creating an XMLHttpRequest, so it fails due to the Same Origin Policy.
Create a JSONP request instead.
From http://api.jquery.com/jquery.getjson/:
JSONP
If the URL includes the string "callback=?" (or similar, as defined by the server-side API), the request is treated as JSONP instead. See the discussion of the jsonp data type in $.ajax() for more details.
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