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CORS Essentials

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781784393779
Length 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Gunasundaram Gunasundaram
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

CORS Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Why You Need CORS FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Proxies for CORS 3. Usability and Security 4. CORS in Popular Content Management Frameworks 5. CORS in Windows 6. CORS in the Cloud 7. CORS in Node.js 8. CORS Best Practices Index

Creating a proxy server with Google App Engine


Google App Engine is an easy way to set up a proxy server for testing code and learning how to use a proxy.

Tip

If you use a public proxy server such as Google App Engine, then your data will not be private. A public proxy is suitable for testing, but you will need to use a secure proxy server that you own for production applications.

Create a New Application with Google App Engine:

There are detailed instructions at , including how to add authentication, because the proxy server will be publicly accessible. Even with added authentication, this proxy server is not sufficiently secure for a production application!

Reverse proxy server

A simple proxy server is known as a forward proxy, which retrieves a resource from another server and sends it to the original client making the request.

A reverse proxy server also retrieves resources on behalf of a client and returns them to the client as if they come from the proxy server itself, not from their actual...

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