Backbone js setting header for get request

Question

How can I set a header for my token to send GET request to an external url? I don't want to override the Backbone.sync actually I want to manually set it for fetching my collection where should I put the header?

Specific question: I want to send GET request and I have specific URL I should set the token for that how should I do that?

Answer 1

You can give custom headers in the headers parameter in the options to the collection's fetch method:

var ThingCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
  url: '/things'
});

var thingCollection = new ThingCollection();
thingCollection.fetch({ 
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Basic NAME:PASSWORD'
  } 
});