nginx.conf with wide open CORS-settings and using a API-management-proxy

cors-nginx.conf

## nginx.conf with wide open CORS-config using an API-management-proxy
## version 0.9 07.10.2013 Claus Klingberg <cjk@pobox.com>

#user html;
worker_processes  1;

#error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
#error_log  logs/error.log  info;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
    #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    #access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;

        #charset koi8-r;

        #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

        location / {
            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }

        #error_page  404              /404.html;

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        }

        # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
        #
        #location ~ \.php$ {
        #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
        #}

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        #
        #location ~ \.php$ {
        #    root           html;
        #    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        #    fastcgi_index  index.php;
        #    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
        #    include        fastcgi_params;
        #}

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        #location ~ /\.ht {
        #    deny  all;
        #}
    }

    server {
        listen       8081;
        server_name  a3s.api.net;
        location / {
          proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;


          if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {

              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
              
              #
              # Om nom nom cookies
              #

              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS';
              
              #
              # Custom headers and headers various browsers *should* be OK with but aren't
              #

              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
              
              #
              # Tell client that this pre-flight info is valid for 20 days
              #

              add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
              add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
              add_header 'Content-Length' 0;

              return 204;
          }

          if ($request_method = 'POST') {

              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';

          }

          if ($request_method = 'GET') {

              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';

          }

          if ($request_method = 'PUT') {

              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';

          }

          if ($request_method = 'DELETE') {

              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS';
              add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';

          }

      }
  
    }

    # another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based configuration
    #
    #server {
    #    listen       8000;
    #    listen       somename:8080;
    #    server_name  somename  alias  another.alias;

    #    location / {
    #        root   html;
    #        index  index.html index.htm;
    #    }
    #}


    # HTTPS server
    #
    #server {
    #    listen       443;
    #    server_name  localhost;

    #    ssl                  on;
    #    ssl_certificate      cert.pem;
    #    ssl_certificate_key  cert.key;

    #    ssl_session_timeout  5m;

    #    ssl_protocols  SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
    #    ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    #    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;

    #    location / {
    #        root   html;
    #        index  index.html index.htm;
    #    }
    #}

}