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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
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
CORS Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

SAAS or self-hosted?


All the major content management frameworks offer a Software As A Service (SAAS) hosted/managed option. Since you do not actually control the server, and scripting is limited, implementing CORS may be difficult, or sometimes impossible.

In the SAAS platform WordPress.com, we shall see that CORS is very limited, and authenticated requests require explicit permission by the current user.

The Drupal SAAS platforms Drupal Gardens and Acquia Cloud Site Factory do not provide a way to implement CORS. There have been feature requests for adding CORS capability, so it may become possible.

It's unclear whether CORS is possible in the SAAS versions of Joomla! and Adobe Experience Manager.

The demand for the capability of CORS will likely be satisfied in these SAAS platforms eventually, so we recommend contacting support and asking them explicitly whether CORS can be implemented.