[ensembl-dev] Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for the REST API?

[Thomas Down]

Brilliant, thanks!  Slightly confusingly, the CORS headers don't show up in
a quick command-line test using curl, looks like they're only added if an
Origin header is present in the request.

           Thomas.


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Andy Yates <ayates at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> It's already been enabled on the server. You can see confirmation of this
> here:
>
>
> http://client.cors-api.appspot.com/client#?client_method=GET&client_credentials=false&server_url=http%3A%2F%2Fbeta.rest.ensembl.org%2Finfo%2Fping.json&server_enable=true&server_status=200&server_credentials=false&server_tabs=remote
>
> Andy
>
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> On 15 May 2013, at 10:18, Thomas Down <thomas.a.down at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Would it be possible to add CORS support to to this API?  This would
> allow the API to be used from browser-based clients without having to jump
> through the JSONP hoops.  The full spec is here:
> >
> >       http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
> >
> > But for a publicly-accessible API, all that's really needed is to add
> the header:
> >
> >       Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
> >
> > to all responses.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> >                  Thomas.
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