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CORS Essentials

By : Rajesh Gunasundaram
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CORS Essentials

By: Rajesh Gunasundaram

Overview of this book

This book explains how to use CORS, including specific implementations for platforms such as Drupal, WordPress, IIS Server, ASP.NET, JBoss, Windows Azure, and Salesforce, as well as how to use CORS in the Cloud on Amazon AWS, YouTube, Mulesoft, and others. It examines limitations, security risks, and alternatives to CORS. It explores the W3C Specification and major developer documentation sources about CORS. It attempts to predict what kinds of extension to the CORS specification, or completely new techniques, will come in the future to address the limitations of CORS Web developers will learn how to share code and assets across domains with CORS. They will learn a variety of techniques that are rather similar in their method and syntax. The book is organized by similar types of framework and application, so it can be used as a reference. Developers will learn about special cases, such as when a proxy is necessary. And they will learn about some alternative techniques that achieve similar goals, and when they may be preferable to using CORS

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
CORS Essentials
CORS Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Why You Need CORS
Why You Need CORS
The same-origin policy
Considering the origin of entities
Commonly allowed cross-origin resource sharing
Permissions required by JavaScript
How CORS works – the header and the request
CORS with Preflight
Troubleshooting and debugging CORS
CORS with jQuery
Enabling CORS globally with server configuration
Alternatives to CORS
Summary
2
Creating Proxies for CORS
Creating Proxies for CORS
Proxies and the World Wide Web
What is a proxy server?
Reasons to use a proxy
Creating a proxy server with Google App Engine
Summary
3
Usability and Security
Usability and Security
CORS usability
Enhancing security in CORS
Summary
4
CORS in Popular Content Management Frameworks
CORS in Popular Content Management Frameworks
Incoming CORS requests
SAAS or self-hosted?
CORS in WordPress
CORS in Drupal
CORS in Joomla!
CORS in Adobe Experience Manager
Summary
5
CORS in Windows
CORS in Windows
Incoming CORS requests
How to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header globally in Windows IIS Server
CORS in the ASP.NET Web API
CORS in Windows Communication Foundation
CORS in Windows browsers – Internet Explorer and Edge
Summary
6
CORS in the Cloud
CORS in the Cloud
CORS requests in cloud APIs
CORS in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Using CORS in Google Cloud Storage
Authenticated access to Google APIs with CORS
CORS in IBM Cloudant
CORS in Windows Azure Storage
CORS in Box API
CORS in the Dropbox API
Summary
References
7
CORS in Node.js
CORS in Node.js
JavaScript frameworks are very popular
Introduction to Node.js
JavaScript frameworks that work with Node.js
CORS in Express.js
CORS npm for Express.js using Connect.js middleware
CORS in AngularJS
CORS in Backbone.js
Node.js and JavaScript frameworks are evolving rapidly
Summary
References
8
CORS Best Practices
CORS Best Practices
Enabling API to public CORS requests
Limiting API to allow CORS requests to a whitelisted set of origins
Protecting against cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we learned the following:

  • Total global CORS/XDomainRequest support is 93.56% as of March 2015

  • AJAX support in the browser must be checked, and a handler should be used in case it is not supported

  • A preflight request before the actual request can ensure usability and improve security

  • Avoid using the wildcard in the he Access-Control-Allow-Origin header

  • HTTP requests and response headers play a role in usability and security

  • CORS requests withcredentials provide better security

  • When making CORS requests withCredentials, we can set and reading cookies on the target domain

  • The CORS security cheat sheet by OWASP provides a checklist of best practices

In the next chapter, you will learn about using CORS in popular Content Management Systems, such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and Adobe CQ.

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