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CORS Essentials

You're reading from   CORS Essentials Access web resources on different domains

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781784393779
Length 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rajesh Gunasundaram Rajesh Gunasundaram
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Preface 1. Why You Need CORS FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Proxies for CORS 3. Usability and Security 4. CORS in Popular Content Management Frameworks 5. CORS in Windows 6. CORS in the Cloud 7. CORS in Node.js 8. CORS Best Practices Index

CORS in Box API


Box provides simple storage of files, which may be shared via view/download links. The Box API supports CORS on an app-by-app basis. Contact the Box team with a description of your use case so that they can allow access from your local domain when making the CORS request. They provide an example of an Ajax upload using jQuery:

// Set up the multipart form using HTML5 FormData object
var form = new FormData();

// The content of the file
// The file content could be read via jQuery.get()
var fileBody = '<p>hey!<p>';

// JS file-like object
var blob = new Blob([fileBody], { type: 'text/xml'});

// Add the file to the form
form.append('file', blob);

// Add the destination folder for the upload to the form
form.append('parent_id', '0');

var uploadUrl = 'https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/content'; 

// The Box OAuth 2 Header. Add your access token.
var headers = {
  Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' // your Box API Access Token
};

$.ajax({
  url: uploadUrl...
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