I'm working with an endpoint that seems to be built on Django.

Attempting to setup basic aJax communication to it via POST I wrote:

jQuery.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "http://API-ENDPOINT-URL",
    data: "",
    dataType: "json",
    crossDomain: false,
    beforeSend: function(xhr){
            xhr.withCredentials = false;
            xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Token <TOKEN THAT I WAS PROVIDED>' );
    },
    success: function(results)
    {
        reqListener(results)
    }


});

With those code a few things happened:

1. I first got a CORS error since I'm trying to build on my local server. I installed this chrome extension to bypass it. (I have no access to the server to enable CORS)

2.I get this error in the console:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://API-ENDPOINT-URL. Response for preflight has invalid HTTP status code 401

3. looking at the Chrome console for the network request I see this comes back:

{"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}

What am I missing? Am I incorrectly sending the authentication token?