temp: api call outside of backbone

gistfile1.js

// api calls outside of backbone.
var apiCall = function(uri, data, success, method)  {
    data = data || {};
    method = method || 'GET';

    $.ajax({
        method: method,
        url: opts.apiRoot + uri,
        data: method == 'POST' ? JSON.stringify(data) : data,
        dataType: 'json',

        beforeSend: function(xhr, options) {
            var headers = authApi.send(data);
            options.headers = headers;
            _.each(headers, function(value, header) {
                xhr.setRequestHeader(header, value);
            });
        },

        success: function(data, status, xhr) {
            authApi.receive(xhr.responseJSON, xhr.getResponseHeader);
            if (success) {
                success(data, status, xhr);
            }
        },

        error: function(dunno, xhr, error){
            if (dunno.status = 403) {
                // Cookies bad as far as the server is concerned (??)
                var defaultOpts = default_config();

                if (authOpts == defaultOpts)
                    throw "apiCall: Final auth attempt failed. Nowhere to go from here. :(";

                remove_cookies();


                authOpts = defaultOpts;
                authApi = _.extend(authApi, defaultOpts);
                apiCall(uri, data, success, method);
            }
        }
    });
}