RE: [cors] Simplify CORS Headers (ISSUE-89)

On Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:05 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Tyler Close <tyler.close@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > > In IE, we only support Access-Control-Allow-Origin and combining with
> > >other values (albeit optional ones) that we don't support might be
> > >misleading. It also introduces some additional parsing that changes the
> > >behaviour from a simple comparison to a more complex parse and then compare.
> >
> > The above statement seems to imply that there are no plans for IE to
> > support the optional features of CORS such as pre-flight and user
> > credentials. Am I reading the statement correctly?
> 
> I don't mean to speak for Adrian, but Microsoft doesn't usually
> comment on future product releases.  I suspect that's because of
> various legal requirements in the US regarding forward-looking
> statements.

Thanks Adam. To be clear, we currently don't support pre-flight/user credentials and we have not announced any plans to do so. I can't comment on what we might do in a future release.

Thanks,

Adrian.

Received on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 22:58:53 UTC