Crossing the CORS crossroad
Every once in a while, I find myself skimming through the MDN docs to jog my memory on how CORS1 works and which HTTP headers are associated with it. This is particularly true when a frontend app can’t talk to a backend service I manage due to a CORS error2. MDN’s CORS documentation is excellent but can be a bit verbose for someone just looking for a way to quickly troubleshoot and fix the issue at hand....