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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
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CORS in WordPress


WordPress can be self hosted, or you could use WordPress.com, which is the hosted/managed SaaS platform for creating WordPress sites. Although incoming and outgoing CORS requests are possible in the self-hosted WordPress, the WordPress.com platform only allows incoming requests.

Limited support for CORS in SAAS WordPress.com

WordPress.com provides a REST API, which can allow incoming CORS requests via JavaScript/jQuery only; other languages are not supported.

You need to whitelist the domains you want to allow to make requests to your application in the dashboard for the site. Authenticated and unauthenticated requests are supported.

Note

The REST API provides a way for other domains to interact with the WordPress.com application. Requests are made to the URI , which is the API endpoint for WordPress.com. There is no provision for making a CORS request from WordPress.com to another domain. That is a limitation of using the WordPress.com SAAS compared with the self-hosted WordPress...

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