CORS, W3C’s mechanism for standardised cross-domain XHR has reached a turning point. More than 50% of user browsers* support it now, with another 31% (MS IE 8 + 9) implementing the core functionality. This means that 81% of browsers allow at least basic execution of cross-origin XHR. Very good news, considering my ongoing effort to […]
Category Archives: CORS
How to debug CORS requests with Firebug
Firebug, the indispensable Firefox add-on for serious developers, is great for debugging web apps that make use of the new CORS mechanism for cross-domain requests. The acronym CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing and was developed by a group of web activists to address the issue of making browser cross-domain requests in a standards-compliant way. […]
Json2Ldap 1.6
October saw a release of Json2Ldap version 1.6 which brings updates in three areas: the web API, addition of CORS support and library upgrades. The software is now being put to serious use and I’m glad to see its popularity pick up, despite having no dedicated marketing effort behind it. I must say the whole […]
JSON-RPC 2.0 Shell 1.4
The interactive shell for querying remote JSON-RPC 2.0 web services received a new feature in line with the recent release of CORS Filter 1.0 – there is now a command line option to set an “Origin” header to simulate cross-origin browser requests. For those of you who still don’t know, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is […]
The future of the web is cross-domain, not same-origin
Last month I released CORS Filter, the first universal software solution for fitting Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support to Java web applications. CORS is a recent W3C effort to introduce a standard mechanism for enabling cross-site requests in web browsers and servers. Since the early days of the web (think Netscape 2.0) browsers have enforced, […]