Flask-Cors 1.7.4

A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support

Flask-CORS
==========

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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.

.. code:: bash

$ pip install -U flask-cors

Usage
-----

This extension enables CORS support either via a decorator, or a Flask
extension. There are three examples shown in the
`examples <https://github.com/wcdolphin/flask-cors/tree/master/examples>`__
directory, showing the major use cases. The suggested configuration is
the
`simple\_example.py <https://github.com/wcdolphin/flask-cors/tree/master/examples/simple_example.py>`__,
or the
`app\_example.py <https://github.com/wcdolphin/flask-cors/tree/master/examples/app_based_example.py>`__.

Simple Usage
~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

.. code:: python


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.

.. code:: python

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.

.. code:: python

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

Options
~~~~~~~

origins
^^^^^^^

Default : '\*'

The origin, or list of origins to allow requests from. The origin(s) may
be regular expressions, exact origins, or else an asterisk.

methods
^^^^^^^

Default : [GET, HEAD, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, DELETE]

The method or list of methods which the allowed origins are allowed to
access.

headers
^^^^^^^

Default : None

The header or list of header field names which can be used when this
resource is accessed by allowed origins.

expose\_headers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Default : None

The header or list of headers which are are safe to expose to browsers.

supports\_credentials
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Default : False

Allows users to make authenticated requests. If true, injects the
``Access-Control-Allow-Credentials`` header in responses.

max\_age
^^^^^^^^

Default : None

The maximum time for which this CORS request maybe cached. This value is
set as the ``Access-Control-Max-Age`` header.

send\_wildcard
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Default : True

If True, and the origins parameter is ``*``, a wildcard
``Access-Control-Allow-Origin`` header is sent, rather than the
request's ``Origin`` header.

always\_send
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Default : True

If True, CORS headers are sent even if there is no ``Origin`` in the
request's headers.

automatic\_options
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Default : True

| If True, CORS headers will be returned for OPTIONS requests. For use
with cross domain POST requests which preflight OPTIONS requests, you
will need to specifically allow the Content-Type header.
| \*\* Only applicable for use in the decorator\*\*

vary\_header
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Default : True

If True, the header Vary: Origin will be returned as per suggestion by
the W3 implementation guidelines. Setting this header when the
``Access-Control-Allow-Origin`` is dynamically generated (e.g. when
there is more than one allowed origin, and an Origin than '\*' is
returned) informs CDNs and other caches that the CORS headers are
dynamic, and cannot be re-used. If False, the Vary header will never be
injected or altered.

Application-wide options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 CORS
Flask-Extension and regular expressions, or via the ``@cross_origin()``
decorator.

The application-wide configuration options are identical to the keyword
arguments to ``cross_origin``, creatively prefixed with ``CORS_``

- CORS\_ORIGINS
- CORS\_METHODS
- CORS\_HEADERS
- CORS\_EXPOSE\_HEADERS
- CORS\_ALWAYS\_SEND
- CORS\_MAX\_AGE
- CORS\_SEND\_WILDCARD
- CORS\_ALWAYS\_SEND

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:

.. code:: python

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

Documentation
-------------

For a full list of options, please see the full
`documentation <http://flask-cors.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`__

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 <https://github.com/wcdolphin/flask-cors>`__, 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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