How to skip the OPTIONS preflight request?

The preflight is being triggered by your Content-Type of application/json. The simplest way to prevent this is to set the Content-Type to be text/plain in your case. application/x-www-form-urlencoded & multipart/form-data Content-Types are also acceptable, but you’ll of course need to format your request payload appropriately. If you are still seeing a preflight after making this … Read more

Why am I seeing an “origin is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin” error here? [duplicate]

Javascript is limited when making ajax requests outside of the current domain. Ex 1: your domain is example.com and you want to make a request to test.com => you cannot. Ex 2: your domain is example.com and you want to make a request to inner.example.com => you cannot. Ex 3: your domain is example.com:80 and … Read more

CORS Access-Control-Allow-Headers wildcard being ignored?

Support for wildcards in the Access-Control-Allow-Headers header was added to the living standard only in May 2016, so it may not be supported by all browsers. On browser which don’t implement this yet, it must be an exact match: https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-cors-20140116/#access-control-allow-headers-response-header If you expect a large number of headers, you can read in the value of … Read more