From 2711913daac645dc1960074d6c5121c8fb49b772 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Teng Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:06:27 +0000 Subject: Add documentation on handling CORS pre-flights --- docs/narr/webob.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/narr/webob.rst b/docs/narr/webob.rst index 6a331e4bf..7d459a1f5 100644 --- a/docs/narr/webob.rst +++ b/docs/narr/webob.rst @@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ Python's ``urllib2`` instead of a Javascript AJAX request: req = urllib2.Request('http://localhost:6543/', json_payload, headers) resp = urllib2.urlopen(req) +If you are doing Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), then the standard requires the browser to do a pre-flight HTTP OPTIONS request. The easiest way to handling this is adding an extra ``view_config`` for the same route, with ``request_method`` set to ``OPTIONS``, and setting the desired response header before returning. You can find examples of response headers here_. + +.. _here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS#Preflighted_requests + .. index:: single: cleaning up after request -- cgit v1.2.3 From 023afb1fd5eedc3f8ba24d95cad1864d05eb0444 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris McDonough Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:53:58 -0500 Subject: repoze who docs moved --- docs/conf.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py index 4bc8e2172..fa4578275 100644 --- a/docs/conf.py +++ b/docs/conf.py @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ intersphinx_mapping = { 'http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/deform/en/latest', None), 'sqla': ('http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest', None), - 'who': ('http://docs.repoze.org/who/latest', None), + 'who': ('http://repozewho.readthedocs.org/en/latest', None), 'python': ('http://docs.python.org', None), 'python3': ('http://docs.python.org/3', None), 'tstring': -- cgit v1.2.3 From 2660f5053de5383aacf4ceff3d4e05d7e73f1635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris McDonough Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:54:03 -0500 Subject: 79 cols --- docs/narr/webob.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/narr/webob.rst b/docs/narr/webob.rst index 7d459a1f5..0eb070b06 100644 --- a/docs/narr/webob.rst +++ b/docs/narr/webob.rst @@ -310,7 +310,11 @@ Python's ``urllib2`` instead of a Javascript AJAX request: req = urllib2.Request('http://localhost:6543/', json_payload, headers) resp = urllib2.urlopen(req) -If you are doing Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), then the standard requires the browser to do a pre-flight HTTP OPTIONS request. The easiest way to handling this is adding an extra ``view_config`` for the same route, with ``request_method`` set to ``OPTIONS``, and setting the desired response header before returning. You can find examples of response headers here_. +If you are doing Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), then the standard +requires the browser to do a pre-flight HTTP OPTIONS request. The easiest way +to handling this is adding an extra ``view_config`` for the same route, with +``request_method`` set to ``OPTIONS``, and setting the desired response header +before returning. You can find examples of response headers here_. .. _here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS#Preflighted_requests -- cgit v1.2.3