Access-Control-Allow-Origin Multiple Origin Domains?

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Is there a way to allow multiple cross-domains using the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header?

I'm aware of the *, but it is too open. I really want to allow just a couple domains.

As an example, something like this:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://domain1.example, http://domain2.example

I have tried the above code but it does not seem to work in Firefox.

Is it possible to specify multiple domains or am I stuck with just one?

32 Answers

For ExpressJS applications you can use:

app.use((req, res, next) => {
    const corsWhitelist = [
        'https://domain1.example',
        'https://domain2.example',
        'https://domain3.example'
    ];
    if (corsWhitelist.indexOf(req.headers.origin) !== -1) {
        res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', req.headers.origin);
        res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept');
    }

    next();
});

There is one disadvantage you should be aware of: As soon as you out-source files to a CDN (or any other server which doesn't allow scripting) or if your files are cached on a proxy, altering response based on 'Origin' request header will not work.

PHP Code:

$httpOrigin = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'] : null;
if (in_array($httpOrigin, [
    'http://localhost:9000', // Co-worker dev-server
    'http://127.0.0.1:9001', // My dev-server
])) header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: ${httpOrigin}");
header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true');

AWS Lambda/API Gateway

For information on how to configure multiple origins on Serverless AWS Lambda and API Gateway - albeit a rather large solution for something one would feel should be quite straightforward - see here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/41708323/1624933


It is currently not possible to configure multiple origins in API Gateway, see here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/how-to-cors-console.html), but the recommendation (in the answer above) is:

  • inspect the Origin header sent by the browser
  • check it against a whitelist of origins
  • if it matches, return the incoming Origin as the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, else return a placeholder (default origin).

The simple solution is obviously enabling ALL (*) like so:

exports.handler = async (event) => {
    const response = {
        statusCode: 200,
        headers: {
            "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
            "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials" : true // Required for cookies, authorization headers with HTTPS
        },
        body: JSON.stringify([{

But it might be better to do this on the API Gateway side (see 2nd link above).

I have https://stackoverflow.com/a/7454204/13779574 this code worked well but gives an error when the user enters that page. I fixed this problem with this code.

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'])) {
   $http_origin = $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'];
   if ($http_origin == "http://localhost:3000" || $http_origin == "http://api.loc/"){  
      header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: $http_origin");
   }
}

And one more answer in Django. To have a single view allow CORS from multiple domains, here is my code:

def my_view(request):
    if 'HTTP_ORIGIN' in request.META.keys() and request.META['HTTP_ORIGIN'] in ['http://allowed-unsecure-domain.com', 'https://allowed-secure-domain.com', ...]:
        response = my_view_response() # Create your desired response data: JsonResponse, HttpResponse...
        # Then add CORS headers for access from delivery
        response["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = request.META['HTTP_ORIGIN']
        response["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"] = "GET" # "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, HEAD"
        response["Access-Control-Max-Age"] = "1000"  
        response["Access-Control-Allow-Headers"] = "*"  
        return response

Below answer is specific to C#, but the concept should be applicable to all the different platforms.

To allow Cross Origin Requests from a web api, You need to allow Option requests to your Application and Add below annotation at controller level.

[EnableCors(UrlString,Header, Method)] Now the origins can be passed only a s string. SO if you want to pass more than one URL in the request pass it as a comma seperated value.

UrlString = "https://a.hello.com,https://b.hello.com"

Only a single origin can be specified for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. But you can set the origin in your response according to the request. Also don't forget to set the Vary header. In PHP I would do the following:

    /**
     * Enable CORS for the passed origins.
     * Adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the response with the origin that matched the one in the request.
     * @param array $origins
     * @return string|null returns the matched origin or null
     */
    function allowOrigins($origins)
    {
        $val = $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'] ?? null;
        if (in_array($val, $origins, true)) {
            header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: '.$val);
            header('Vary: Origin');

            return $val;
        }

        return null;
    }

  if (allowOrigins(['http://localhost', 'https://localhost'])) {
      echo your response here, e.g. token
  }

i was also facing same problem. my client was on 9097,api gateway on 9098,microservice on .... Actually i was using spring cloud Api gateway
in my gateway yml file i had allowed crossorigin like-- ... allowedOrigins: "http://localhost:9097"

also in my microservice i was using @crossOrigin

when client sent request to api gateway, two "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" headers was coming in responce [one from api yml file and one from microservice @crossorigin] so browser blocked request

i solved it as--

    @Bean
public RouteLocator getRL(RouteLocatorBuilder builder) {
    
return  builder.routes()
    
        .route(p-> 
         "/friendlist","/guest/**"
                )
         .filters(f ->{
             //f.removeResponseHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin");
             //f.addResponseHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin","http://localhost:9097");
             f.setResponseHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin","http://localhost:9097");
             return f;
         })
        .uri("lb://OLD-SERVICE")
        
        
    ).build();      
}
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