In this request it will include two headers for the access control: Access-Control-Request-Headers: myheader and Access-Control-Request-Method: GET. the browser makes a HTTP OPTIONS request to the server to validate if the request will be allowed.In this example there are a few more things that happen because the browser needs to make a preflight request because of the custom header myheader: Dotnet has better ways to configure CORS then directly setting headers in the controllers, but I want to first show you the most basic low-level implementation without involving a lot of framework magic.Īn example of a request that requires a preflight by using a non-standard header The example below shows a simple implementation in Dotnet Core. Those are headers the client sends, but you will never have to set them yourself and they also don’t grand you the actual access. When a preflight happens you will also see the Access-Control-Request-* headers which are used to tell the server which access controls a client wants. The most important one is the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header which allows access to the URL from other domains, but there are more access control headers. The server allows access from other domains by sending the Access-Control-Allow-* headers.
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A full definition of what qualifies as a simple request and what doesn’t can be found on the excellent MDN page about this topic. For simple requests the browser just goes ahead with the request and only rejects the call afterwards. For the non-simple request the browser will make a preflight request to ask the server if the main request will be allowed. Preflight and HTTP OPTIONSĬORS request fall in either one of two categories: simple requests and non-simple requests.
In this article I will show how CORS works and what you need to do to make a cross-domain request happen. This is properly the biggest source of confusion around CORS: many people either try to fix CORS errors in JavaScript (which has nothing to say in the matter) or are trying to find what part of their backend is failing (which doesn’t do the failing). This enforcement however happens in the browser, so on the client side. So, apparently CORS is here to help so what does it? The CORS specification allows a server to set headers that indicate with part of the same-origin policy should not be enforced. This means that without CORS it would be absolutely impossible to make an API call to another domain. In principle CORS actually exists to make this easier: it allows an opt-out for the same-origin policy.
Cross-Origin Requests are a part of the HTTP specification that has driven many developers to the limits of their sanity for how seemingly complex it is to make two websites talk with each other.
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