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CORS Essentials

CORS Essentials

By : Gunasundaram
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CORS Essentials

CORS Essentials

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By: 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 (10 chapters)
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Reasons to use a proxy


There are several reasons why you should place a proxy between your local domain and the target domain, which are as follows:

Avoid mixing up protocols

If your local domain application is served over SSL with HTTPS and you request a resource that is not served via SSL, the user may get a warning in the browser about mixing secure and non-secure content. Since the request to a proxy can also be made over SSL, there is no mixed content and the user sees no warning.

Some API platforms require proxies or CORS

An API hosted on a domain different from the local domain, a cloud-hosted API, or an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) may require that cross-domain requests pass through a proxy or be handled by CORS. Apigee Edge, Mulesoft, and Google App Engine are platforms that require a proxy, or CORS, to pass requests. We will review solutions for specific platforms and applications in later chapters.

Getting through a local network firewall

In the same way that you may have to set up...

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