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I'm working on an integration to manually start and stop live events in cablecast via a Crestron control system. I'm trying to use the forceevents api. Whenever I do a post to that endpoint, I get the response below. I've got the media type header set to text/json. I'm also pretty sure I have the auth set up properly because I'm able to to do get requests for devices and outputs.

The json i'm sending is:
{
"forceEvents": [
"switchEvent": {
"device": 4,
"output": 1
}
]
}

And the response is:

Server Error in '/CablecastAPI' Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /cablecastapi/v1/forceevents

I want to create a page on our website for each and every show we produce. Currently, this is and example of what we have...

http://campbellmedia.org/node/5

This is our page for our government channel. If you go to this page, it gives you links to a page for each and every government show we shoot.

When you click on a show, it takes you to a new page that has a list of each and every episode. They're just listed as text links.

Every time we have a new meeting, i have to go to the website and duplicate one of those links, then change it so it matches up with the new meeting and is labeled correctly.

I want to try and automate this better. I want to be able to use the new API for the public VOD page and create it so that i can create a page for, say for example, Alexandria City Council, and have it display thumbnails of each and every new show from that program. I know that I would need to create a saved search that would give me all shows from project Alexandria City Council that have VOD files with them and displayed in descending order.

I just do not know how to apply this or mess with the API coding

I'm currently working on adding some cool Cablecast integrations features into our new website and I'm having trouble understanding how to send the Authentication header with my request. I'd appreciate it if I can just get a super quick example of sending that header and then carrying out an innocent action like perhaps "POST v1/digitalfiles/{id}/reindex" since any valid file will just get reindexed and be valid again.

Once that's out of the way, I'll be sure to merge my code here. We have some cool examples in the works. Thanks.

EDIT: I made a few new attempts using modified stuff from SO (let's not lie here) and reading the jQuery documentation. The code below (with username, pass, and IP obviously changed to correct values) gives me the following error:
"request header field is not allowed by access-control-allow-headers"

Ideas?

``var username = "plaintextUser";
var password = "plaintextPass";

function make_base_auth(user, password) {
var tok = user + ':' + password;
var hash = btoa(tok);
return "Basic " + hash;
}
$.ajax
({
method: "POST", //use for jquery above 1.9.0 else type: 'POST'
url: "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cablecastapi/v1/digitalfiles/867/reindex",
dataType: 'json',
async: false,
beforeSend: function (xhr){
xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', make_base_auth(username, password));
},
success: function (){
alert('The file is being reindexed!');
}
});

console.log("Testing connection.");