Re: CORS performance

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Dale Harvey <dale@arandomurl.com> wrote:
>> With Couch / PouchDB we are working with an existing REST API wherein every
>> request is to a different url (which is unlikely to change), the performance
>> impact is significant since most of the time is used up by latency, the CORS
>> preflight request essentially double the time it takes to do anything
>
> Yeah, also, it should not be up to us how people design their HTTP
> APIs. Limiting HTTP in that way because it is hard to make CORS scale
> seems bad.
>
>
> I think we've been too conservative when introducing CORS. It's
> effectively protecting content behind a firewall,

...and content that uses user credentials like cookies.

/ Jonas

Received on Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:53:34 UTC