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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

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.

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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...

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