Query sharepoint list from MVC site - asp.net-mvc

Question

Ok i have a fairly simple request, but i have been searching for some hours now and can't seem to find a simple answer to what i feel should be a fairly simple task.
I have built an intranet site for our business using dot net & MVC this runs on a separate server to the sharepoint site. All i want to do is get a list of documents from a given sharepoint library and display links to their urls which will redirect the end user to that document from my intranet site - this will vary depending on the users dept.
So i was looking at the jquery AJAX route, but then i realise sharepoint wont allow me javascript queries from a different domain.
So next route is backend dot net pass the data to the view and display that way, but i want to use the servers sharepoint authentication without entering username and password in the code/manually.
Am i missing something simple? I don't want to waste a lot of time on something i thought should be fairly simple.. anyone fancy pointing me in the right direction?
Thanks

Answer 1

Well it wasn't incredibly easy but i did get it done like this if anyone wants to know :p sp 2013 using Rest api using server credentials to connect to sharepoint and retrieve documents Name, Sharepoint url and icon.
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.IO
Imports System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.Net
Public Class SPDocumentLibrary
Public Property Files As List(Of SPDocument)
Public Sub New()
Dim request As HttpWebRequest = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create(
"http://sharepointserver/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('list')/items?$expand=File&$select=File/Name,OData__dlc_DocIdUrl/Url&$orderby=Title&$top=99999&orderby=File/Name"
), HttpWebRequest)
request.Method = "GET"
request.ContentType = "text/xml"
request.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials
Dim response As HttpWebResponse = CType(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Dim receiveStream As Stream = response.GetResponseStream()
Dim readStream As New StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8)
Dim xd As XDocument = XDocument.Load(readStream)
response.Close()
readStream.Close()
Dim d As XNamespace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices"
Dim x As XNamespace = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
Dim docs As IEnumerable(Of SPDocument) = _
From doc As XElement In xd.Root.Elements(x + "entry") _
Select New SPDocument With {.Name = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(doc.Descendants(d + "Name").Value), .Url = doc.Descendants(d + "Url").Value, .icon = IconFromExtension(Path.GetExtension(doc.Descendants(d + "Name").Value).ToLower)}
Me.Files = docs.ToList()
End Sub
Private Function IconFromExtension(ext As String) As String
If ext Like ".doc*" Then
Return "icdoc.png"
ElseIf ext Like ".xls*" Then
Return "icxls.png"
ElseIf ext Like ".ppt*" Then
Return "icppt.png"
ElseIf ext = ".pdf" Then
Return "icpdf.png"
ElseIf ext = ".msg" Then
Return "icmsg.png"
ElseIf ext Like ".htm*" Then
Return "ichtm.gif"
ElseIf ext Like ".rtf" Then
Return "icrtf.gif"
ElseIf ext Like ".dot*" Then
Return "icdot.png"
ElseIf ext Like ".xlt*" Then
Return "icxlt.png"
Else
Return "icgen.gif"
End If
End Function
End Class
Public Class SPDocument
Property Name As String
Property Url As String
Property icon As String
End Class