Django CORS
Explore how to implement Cross-Origin Resource Sharing in your Django RESTful API using the django-cors-headers package. Understand the role of CORS headers in browser security, how to configure allowed domains, and best practices for development and production environments. Gain practical skills to enable your frontend applications to securely access backend API resources.
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What is CORS?
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism based on an HTTP header that allows a server to indicate any origins (domains, ports, or schemes) other than its own from which a browser should permit the loading of resources.
In our case, we have created an authentication API, which is a backend. When hosting this API on a server, the authentication requests to our API come in from a front-end application hosted on another server. For the front-end application to be allowed ...