CORS and CSRF – Everything there is to know! by Gautam Kumar Samal on April 28, 2020 1,164 views

What is CORS? Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell browsers to give a web application running at one origin, access to selected resources from a different origin. A web application executes a cross-origin HTTP request when it requests a resource that has a different origin (domain, protocol, or port) from its own. As we can clearly see, it’s a browser thing. Most browsers enforce a certain standard…