This book explains how to use CORS, including specific implementations for platforms such as Drupal, WordPress, IIS Server, ASP.NET, JBoss, Windows Azure, and Salesforce, as well as how to use CORS in the Cloud on Amazon AWS, YouTube, Mulesoft, and others. It examines limitations, security risks, and alternatives to CORS.
It attempts to predict what kinds of extension to the CORS specification, or completely new techniques, will come in the future to address the limitations of CORSWeb developers will learn how to share code and assets across domains with CORS. And they will learn about some alternative techniques that achieve similar goals, and when they may be preferable to using CORS