Cross-origin resource sharing

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Work

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

4

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In computing, cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism to safely bypass the same-origin policy; that is, it allows a web page to access restricted resources from a web server on a domain name different from the domain that served the web page.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Cross-origin resource sharing”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia