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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

CORS in Joomla!


To enable CORS in Joomla!, you need to add the standard CORS header(s). There are a few ways to add the header(s), which are covered in the following sections.

setHeader in JApplication web

Since Joomla! version 11.4, the core method to set headers is setHeader in the base class JapplicationWeb, which can be used to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header and can be used to set other headers.

The following example allows access from all domains with the wildcard:

setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*', true) : \JApplicationWeb

You may find discussions regarding the use of JResponse::setHeader for CORS in Joomla!; however, it has been deprecated since Joomla! Version 11.4. Use setHeader in the base class JApplicationWeb instead.

matware-libraries on GitHub

Although we could not find any Joomla! extensions available to configure allowed origins from the web admin, there is a project on GitHub named matware-libraries, which adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. Matware...