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What is the applicability of CORS?

I have a system which needs to do cross-origin requests and having trouble understanding the relevance of CORS. At first glance it doesn’t appear to provide me with any type of security I’d actually want for my service.

What is the applicability of CORS?

I have a system which needs to do cross-origin requests and having trouble understanding the relevance of CORS. At first glance it doesn’t appear to provide me with any type of security I’d actually want for my service.

How to have my callbacks authenticated in a REST app?

I’m developing a REST application and I allow my clients to authenticate in several ways (typically using Authorization: Token ... as in OAuth 2.0, but also there’s session-based auth option for the web-browsable API). The application allows the client to provide their endpoint to which my application would later POST with some data whenever a particular event happens.

How to have my callbacks authenticated in a REST app?

I’m developing a REST application and I allow my clients to authenticate in several ways (typically using Authorization: Token ... as in OAuth 2.0, but also there’s session-based auth option for the web-browsable API). The application allows the client to provide their endpoint to which my application would later POST with some data whenever a particular event happens.