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Adding CORS response headers
- Oct 08, 2015
To anyone who comes in afterwards and wants to find a 'final' solution, here's what we ended up with (which functions perfectly, at least for us):
when HTTP_REQUEST priority 200 { unset cors_origin -nocomplain if { [HTTP::header Origin] ends_with ".example.com" } { if { ( [HTTP::method] equals "OPTIONS" ) and ( [HTTP::header exists "Access-Control-Request-Method"] ) } { CORS preflight request - return response immediately HTTP::respond 200 "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" [HTTP::header "Origin"] \ "Access-Control-Allow-Methods" "POST, GET, OPTIONS" \ "Access-Control-Allow-Headers" [HTTP::header "Access-Control-Request-Headers"] \ "Access-Control-Max-Age" "86400" } else { CORS GET/POST requests - set cors_origin variable set cors_origin [HTTP::header "Origin"] } } ... ... ... other irules ... ... ... } when HTTP_RESPONSE { CORS GET/POST response - check cors_origin variable set in request if { [info exists cors_origin] } { HTTP::header insert "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" $cors_origin HTTP::header insert "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials" "true" HTTP::header insert "Vary" "Origin" } }
If you have any comments about this, please do so. And, of course, feel free to use it yourself.
The solution depends on where you want the traffic to go. If you want it to go to the client, then it's in the response event. To the server then it's in the request event. The HTTP::respond command is a little unique here because it forces a preemptive response to the client from a request event - in other words the server never sees the request. The iTule preemptively sends a response.
If you want to send additional data to the client based on something they said in the request, then the best approach is to set a variable in the request and look for that variable in the response event.
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