django-cors-headers

A Django App that adds CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) headers to responses.

Although JSON-P is useful, it is strictly limited to GET requests. CORS builds on top of XmlHttpRequest to allow developers to make cross-domain requests, similar to same-domain requests. Read more about it here: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/

Setup

Install by downloading the source and running:

python setup.py install

or

pip install django-cors-headers

and then add it to your installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'corsheaders',
    ...
)

You will also need to add a middleware class to listen in on responses:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
    ...
)

Configuration

You may optionally specify these options in settings.py to override the defaults. Defaults are shown below:

CORS_ALLOW_METHODS: specify the allowed HTTP methods that can be used when making the actual request

Default:

	CORS_ALLOW_METHODS = (
   		'GET',
   		'POST',
   		'PUT',
   		'PATCH',
   		'DELETE',
   		'OPTIONS'
	)

CORS_ALLOW_HEADERS: specify which non-standard HTTP headers can be used when making the actual request

Default:

	CORS_ALLOW_HEADERS = (
		'x-requested-with',
		'content-type',
		'accept',
		'origin',
		'authorization'
	)

CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL: if True, the whitelist will not be used and all origins will be accepted

Default:

    CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = False

CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST: specify a list of origin hostnames that are authorized to make a cross-site HTTP request; set to None to allow access to anyone

Example:

	CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST = (
		'google.com',
		'hostname.example.com'
	)


Default:

	CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST = ()

CORS_PREFLIGHT_MAX_AGE: specify the number of seconds a client/browser can cache the preflight response

Note: A preflight request is an extra request that is made when making a "not-so-simple" request (eg. content-type is not application/x-www-form-urlencoded) to determine what requests the server actually accepts. Read more about it here: [http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/)

Default:

	CORS_PREFLIGHT_MAX_AGE = 86400

CORS_ALLOW_CREDENTIALS: specify whether or not cookies are allowed to be included in cross-site HTTP requests (CORS).

Default:

	CORS_ALLOW_CREDENTIALS = True