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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

Summary


We have learned some important ways of applying CORS in Node.js. Let us have a quick recap of what we have learned.

Node.js provides a web server built with JavaScript, and can be combined with many other JS frameworks as the application server.

Although some frameworks have specific syntax for implementing CORS, they all follow the CORS specification by specifying the allowed origin(s) and method(s). More robust frameworks allow custom headers, such as Content-Type and preflight, when required for complex CORS requests.

JavaScript frameworks may depend on the jQuery XHR object, which must be configured properly to allow cross-origin requests.

JavaScript frameworks are evolving rapidly. The examples here may become outdated. Always refer to the project documentation for up-to-date information.

With knowledge of the CORS specification, you may create your own techniques using JavaScript based on these examples, depending on the specific needs of your application.

Now you know most of the...