This example shows how to handle Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) objections to cross-domain Ajax requests. The front end is at https://acad.kutztown.edu/~spiegel/cis521/ServletHTML/AjaxShowParam/external.html It uses a filter (WebConfig) to handle the CORS authorization. For more info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS