express-cors

Simple middleware for adding CORS functionality to your expressjs app.

Installation

npm install express-cors

Usage

var cors = require('express-cors')

app.use(cors({
	allowedOrigins: [
		'github.com', 'google.com'
	]
}))

curl -v -H "Origin: https://github.com" http://localhost:3000/

…

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://github.com
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With, Content-Type

Possible hosts specification

• https://github.com - allow only https scheme for this host
• http://github.com - allow only http scheme for this host
• github.com - allow any scheme for this host
• *.github.com - allow any sub-domain including second-level domain itself
• https://*.github.com - same as above but restrict for https only
• github:* - allow any port for this host
• *.github:* - allow any port for this host and any sub-domain
• https://*.github:* - same as above but restrict for https only

You've got the idea… If not, see test.js for more examples.

Other options

• methods - array of allowed methods (default value is GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS)
• headers - array of allowed headers (default value is X-Requested-With, Content-Type)
• maxAge - value for Access-Control-Allow-Max-Age header (default is none)

Running Tests

mocha -R spec

If you want to contribute please ensure all tests are passing.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright 2013 by Yuriy Bogdanov <chinsay gmail>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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