- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:45:03 +0100
- To: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Cc: WebAppSec WG <public-webappsec@w3.org>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Monsur Hossain <monsur@gmail.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Dale Harvey <dale@arandomurl.com>
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org> wrote: > 1. Preflight is only necessary for a subset of CORS requests. > Preflight is never done for GET or HEAD, and you can avoid preflight > for POST requests by making your API accept data in a format that > matches what HTML forms post. Therefore, we're only talking about PUT, > DELETE, less common forms of POST, and other less commonly-used > methods. Euh, if you completely ignore headers, sure. But most HTTP APIs will use some amount of custom headers, meaning *all* methods require a preflight. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
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