Converting curl cmd to jQuery $.ajax() From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20155531/converting-curl-cmd-to-jquery-ajax

curl.js

$.ajax({
    url: "http://www.example.com/api",
    beforeSend: function(xhr) { 
      xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + btoa("username:password")); 
    },
    type: 'POST',
    dataType: 'json',
    contentType: 'application/json',
    processData: false,
    data: '{"foo":"bar"}',
    success: function (data) {
      alert(JSON.stringify(data));
    },
    error: function(){
      alert("Cannot get data");
    }
});