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A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support

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A Flask extension for handling Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), making cross-origin AJAX possible.

Installation

Install the extension with using pip, or easy_install.

$ pip install flask-cors

Usage

This extension enables CORS support either via a decorator, or a Flask extension. There are three examples shown in the examples directory, showing the major use cases. The suggested configuration is the simple_example.py, or the app_example.py.

Simple Usage

In the simplest case, initialize the Flask-Cors extension with default arguments in order to allow CORS on all routes.

app = Flask(__name__)
cors = CORS(app)

@app.route("/")
def helloWorld():
  return "Hello, cross-origin-world!"

Resource specific CORS

Alternatively, a list of resources and associated settings for CORS can be supplied, selectively enables CORS support on a set of paths on your app.

Note: this resources parameter can also be set in your application’s config.

app = Flask(__name__)
cors = CORS(app, resources={r"/api/*": {"origins": "*"}})

@app.route("/api/v1/users")
def list_users():
  return "user example"

Route specific CORS via decorator

This extension also 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.

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

Using JSON with CORS

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. The simplest way to do this is to simply set the CORS_HEADERS configuration value on your application: e.g.

app.config['CORS_HEADERS'] = 'Content-Type'

Application-wide settings

Alternatively, you can set all parameters except automatic_options in an app’s config object. Setting these at the application level effectively changes the default value for your application, while still allowing you to override it on a per-resource basis, either via the CORSEnabler and regular expressions, or via the @cross_origin() decorator.

The application-wide configuration options are creatively prefixed with CORS_ e.g. * CORS_ORIGINS * CORS_METHODS * CORS_HEADERS * CORS_EXPOSE_HEADERS * CORS_ALWAYS_SEND * CORS_MAX_AGE * CORS_SEND_WILDCARD * CORS_ALWAYS_SEND

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

Tests

A simple set of tests is included in test/. To run, install nose, and simply invoke nosetests 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.

Credits

This Flask extension is based upon the [Decorator for the HTTP Access Control](http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/56/) written by Armin Ronacher.

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