About this Book
The idea behind CORS is simple: allow one site to make a request to another. It’s a fairly trivial thing to do from most programming languages. So why does there need to be a book about it?
Hidden behind this simple idea are a lot of complex concepts. While other programming languages have no restrictions on HTTP requests, things are different in a browser, where the browser’s same-origin policy prevents requests from different sites. CORS must balance the need to enable cross-origin requests while preserving the same-origin policy for sites that don’t use CORS.
Also, CORS has both a client- and a server-side component. For a cross-origin request to succeed, the client and the server must be in agreement. This is different ...
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