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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

How to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header globally in Windows IIS Server


Although it is possible to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header value globally in web.config for Windows IIS Server, the Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Cross-Origin Support package provides classes and interfaces for the sophisticated handling of CORS requests.

Tip

In general, best practices for CORS recommend setting the CORS-enabling Access-Control-Allow-Origin header only on pages where it is actually needed, rather than setting it globally on every page. Also consider the security implications of allowing CORS requests globally, particularly when using the wildcard "*".

You may also allow a single domain instead of allowing all domains with the wildcard. Until the CORS specification supporting multiple allowed domains is widely supported in client browsers, you will need to use additional logic in code to allow a specific set of allowed domains.

Setting CORS headers globally with web.config for IIS7 Server...