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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

Chapter 1. Why You Need CORS

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

  • The same-origin policy that limits sharing resources across domains

  • Granting access to CORS requests by setting headers

  • How to do something with the responseText request from a CORS request

  • Rudimentary security in CORS and ways to add more security

  • Preflight requests to prepare for some types of CORS methods and events

  • Enabling the crossorigin attribute in a script tag for better troubleshooting

  • Alternatives to CORS: JSON-P, WebSockets, and window.postMessage