#
# Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
location / {
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
#
# Om nom nom cookies
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
#
# Custom headers and headers various browsers *should* be OK with but aren't
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
#
# Tell client that this pre-flight info is valid for 20 days
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
return 204;
}
if ($request_method = 'POST') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, 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, 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';
}
}
This doesn't seem to work for me ... I'm uisng nginx/1.0.5. For testing I replaced http://10.140.10.40 with *.
Thanks a lot. This saved my day :)
good example for config options
If only I could see this before wasting 5 hours of time... Thanks a lot for saving the rest of my day! :)
For me I hade to return 204 otherwise the browser would hang and then timeout on the option request:
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
Updated with 204 return for OPTIONS (mrdevin) and wildcard '*' for Access-Control-Allow-Origin (epicserve).
I've updated this in https://gist.github.com/4165271 to add a poor man's whitelist. I'm not really sure where having Access-Control-Allow-Origin as wildcard would cause too many issues, but some people may be extra conscious. We use a simple-ish regexp to match valid URLs. Please note that I haven't load tested this, so I don't know what kind of effect it'll have.
Thanks for this. I use:
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" $http_origin;
FWIW HTTP/1.1 RFC says response from OPTIONS is not cacheable. Doesn't that mean a browser must ignore your Access-Control-Max-Age header?
Thanks a lot!
From MDN:
I've confirmed that at least Firefox will block a request with cookies if the Access-Control-Allow-Origin is set to '*'.