Why is an OPTIONS request sent and can I disable it?

edit 2018-09-13: added some precisions about this pre-flight request and how to avoid it at the end of this reponse. OPTIONS requests are what we call pre-flight requests in Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS). They are necessary when you’re making requests across different origins in specific situations. This pre-flight request is made by some browsers as … Read more

“Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin” error for request made by application running from a file:// URL

For the record, as far as I can tell, you had two problems: You weren’t passing a “jsonp” type specifier to your $.get, so it was using an ordinary XMLHttpRequest. However, your browser supported CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) to allow cross-domain XMLHttpRequest if the server OKed it. That’s where the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header came in. I … Read more

“Cross origin requests are only supported for HTTP.” error when loading a local file

My crystal ball says that you are loading the model using either file:// or C:/, which stays true to the error message as they are not http:// So you can either install a webserver in your local PC or upload the model somewhere else and use jsonp and change the url to http://example.com/path/to/model Origin is … Read more

No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource—when trying to get data from a REST API

This answer covers a lot of ground, so it’s divided into three parts: How to use a CORS proxy to avoid “No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header” problems How to avoid the CORS preflight How to fix “Access-Control-Allow-Origin header must not be the wildcard” problems How to use a CORS proxy to avoid “No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header” problems If … Read more

How does Access-Control-Allow-Origin header work?

Access-Control-Allow-Origin is a CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) header. When Site A tries to fetch content from Site B, Site B can send an Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header to tell the browser that the content of this page is accessible to certain origins. (An origin is a domain, plus a scheme and port number.) By default, Site … Read more

Why does my JavaScript code receive a “No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource” error, while Postman does not?

If I understood it right you are doing an XMLHttpRequest to a different domain than your page is on. So the browser is blocking it as it usually allows a request in the same origin for security reasons. You need to do something different when you want to do a cross-domain request. A tutorial about … Read more

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