Can't get Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to work as I expected - ajax

Question

There are a lot of questions on this subject, but I still can't seem to resolve my issue.
I have a game that I'm trying to get working with HTML 5 in Chrome. Link here.
The game is written using libgdx and I'm posting json data from my app engine hosted back end. I've done quite a bit of reading and I think I understand the issue with cross domain access, I also think I understand how to resolve it but can't.
The full error is
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://1-1-51.wordbuzzweb.appspot.com/Login. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://wordbuzzhtml5.appspot.com' is therefore not allowed access.
As you can see, this says No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.. But if I look at the headers for the requested resource, they are as follows.
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:59:34 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
Server: Google Frontend
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST
Content-Type: application/json
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Alternate-Protocol: 80:quic,p=0
Cache-Control: private
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
Content-Length: 127
As you can see, there is an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header included.
If someone could please tell me what I'm doing wrong, that'd be appreciated.
The request header is as follows using the POST method.
Host: 192.168.254.1:8081
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Origin: http://localhost:8080/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.52 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Referer: http://localhost:8080/html/
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.8
Content-Length: 25
Content-Type: application/json

Answer 1

Since you are getting some headers back in the response, that's a good indication that the request IS reaching the server, however, the fact that it isn't hitting your server route points to the problem being the request being made doesn't match any of your routes. The request is likely an OPTIONS request rather than a POST request, which commonly happens when you make a CORS request from the browser that isn't a "simple request".
The solution would be to either make it a "simple request", or to have your server respond to OPTIONS requests. It's far easier to just make your server respond to OPTIONS requests, because sometimes even "simple requests" still send OPTIONS requests.