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CORS Essentials

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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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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 Windows Communication Foundation


Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is another service-oriented Windows .NET framework component that is suitable for building applications that use CORS.

The WCF sends data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be hosted by IIS, or it can be hosted in an application. It can be a client of a service that requests data from a service endpoint.

Out of the box, WCF cannot make cross-origin requests because it does not send the required CORS headers: Access-Control-Allow-Origin, Access-Control-Allow-Methods, and Access-Control-Allow-Methods. WCF can also send the optional CORS headers: Access-Control-Allow-Headers and Access-Control-Max-Age.

Create a global.asax file to add the necessary HTTP headers to Application_BeginRequest. The following example of code for the global.asax file allows a request from http://localdomain.com, using allowed HTTP methods POST, PUT, DELETE. It allows http://localdomain.com...

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