[cors] Subdomains

Maybe I’m missing something, but shouldn’t it be easy to use certain groups of origins in ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’, e.g. make either the scheme, the host or the port part irrelevant or only match certain subparts of the host part? 

Consider Wikipedia/Wikimedia as an example. If all 200-odd Wikipedias (*.wikiPedia.org) but no other site should be able to access certain resources from the common repository at commons.wikiMedia.org, wouldn’t everybody expect

  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://*.wikipedia.org

to just work? Is the Commons server instead expected to parse the Origin header and dynamically set ACAO accordingly? 

Likewise transnational corporations might want something like

  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://example.*, http://example.co.*

although they cannot guarantee that they possess the second or third level domain name under all top level domains.

Received on Sunday, 25 July 2010 12:26:32 UTC