如何使用授权标头生成GET CORS请求

I was reading about CORS requests, and I have managed to make regular GET or POST request and it works fine. But when I add authorization header to a either GET or POST request, then the preflight OPTIONS request is sent to the server and I get 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERR, and the actual request isn't sent. My question is how does the preflight actually work, and what response does it require so that it will send the main request? And is it possible to send it without the preflight because I'm sure that then it would work? The serve-rside is written in Django 1.6 and has ACCESS-ALLOW-ORIGIN set to *, and it works with regular post and get requests.I was reading about CORS requests, and I have m