December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 58m
English
The most important application of this OPTIONS method is Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). Initially, browser security prevented the client from making cross-origin requests. It means a site loaded with the URL www.foo.com can only make API calls to that host. If the client code needs to request files or data from www.bar.com, then the second server, bar.com, should have a mechanism to recognize foo.com to get its resources.
This process explains the CORS:
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