Angular: Trying CORS $.get on non-JSONP urls

Question

Getting the target url of a 301 redirect from a shortened URL within AngularJS.

1) The plain old $http.get on a regular website fails with "Access-Control-Origin" not allowed.

2) Then, issuing a JSONP-Call will work, but of course the callback fails when trying to parse the response.

Searched up and down, deleted "X-Requested-With" header with no luck. Any clues?

Answer 1

Seems like this is simply impossible. Workaround: Resolve URLs in backend, which is of course totally inefficient.