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A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support

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Flask-CORS is a simple extension to Flask allowing you to support cross origin resource sharing (CORS) using a simple decorator.

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Installation

Install the extension with using pip, or easy_install.

$ pip install flask-cors

Usage

This extension exposes a simple decorator to decorate flask routes with. Simply add @cross_origin() below a call to Flask’s @app.route(..) incanation to accept the default options and allow CORS on a given route.

Simple Usage

@app.route("/")
@cross_origin() # allow all origins all methods.
def helloWorld():
  return "Hello, cross-origin-world!"

Using JSON with Cross Origin

When using JSON cross origin, browsers will issue a pre-flight OPTIONS request for POST requests. In order for browsers to allow POST requests with a JSON content type, you must allow the Content-Type header.

@app.route("/user/create", methods=['GET','POST'])
@cross_origin(headers=['Content-Type']) # Send Access-Control-Allow-Headers
def cross_origin_json_post():
  return jsonify(success=True)

Application-wide settings

Alternatively, setting your application’s CORS_ORIGINS configuration property will

app.config['CORS_ORIGINS'] = ['Foo', 'Bar']


@app.route("/")
@cross_origin() # will return CORS headers for origins 'Foo' and 'Bar'
def helloWorld():
  return "Hello, cross-origin-world!"

For a full list of options, please see the full documentation

Tests

A simple set of tests is included in test.py. To run, install nose, and simply invoke nosetests or run python test.py or python setup.py test to exercise the tests.

Contributing

Questions, comments or improvements? Please create an issue on Github, tweet at [@wcdolphin](https://twitter.com/wcdolphin) or send me an email.

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