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https://github.com/martinkr/corsify

A tiny transparent proxy. The benefit: it adds the CORS-headers! Why? It prevents Cross Domain Errors.
https://github.com/martinkr/corsify

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A tiny transparent proxy. The benefit: it adds the CORS-headers! Why? It prevents Cross Domain Errors.

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# corsify [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/martinkr/corsify.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/martinkr/corsify)

A tiny transparent proxy. The benefit: it adds the CORS-headers! Why? It prevents Cross Domain Errors.



Try it: [http://corsify.me](http://corsify.me)

- Without CORS-headers: [http://shaky-library.surge.sh](http://shaky-library.surge.sh)

- With CORS-headers aka "corsyfied": [http://localhost:3001/http://shaky-library.surge.sh](http://localhost:3001/http://shaky-library.surge.sh)



## CORS-i-fy? What is this all about?

 > Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that allows restricted resources (e.g. fonts) on a web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the resource originated. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing)



## Wait… What?!

Your script from http://rebel-mother.surge.sh makes an AJAX-request to http://shaky-library.surge.sh. 


You see the infamous "XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://shaky-library.surge.sh. Origin http://rebel-mother.surge.sh is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin." error message.



## corsify to the rescue!

Change your AJAX-Request from http://shaky-library.surge.sh to http://localhost:3001/http://shaky-library.surge.sh. Et voilá: no more errors.



## So simple?

For now: yes.



## Roll our own!

``` $ git clone https://github.com/martinkr/corsify.git``` the repository and fire up your own local instance with docker or plain node.js.



### With the included Dockerfile

Fast and clean. No additional files on your machine.

- Build the image: ```$ docker build -t corsify:latest . ```

- Start the container: ```$ docker run -p 3001:3000 corsify:latest```

- Go to: [http://localhost:3001](http://localhost:3001)



Uses ``` alpine:3.6``` and ```node:8.4.0```.



### Directly on your machine:

Fast and easy, but all those node_modules…

- Install dependencies ```$ npm install``` or ```$ yarn ```

- Build the files and start server ```$ npm start``` or ```$ yarn start ```

- Go to: [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)



Requires ```nodejs```. Recomended: ```v8.4.0```, but it might work with older versions too.



# Tech Stack

- ECMAScript 2015 on ```nodejs v8.4.0```

- Rendering ```Mustache v2.3.0``` templates

- CSS 3 piped through ```postcss-cli v4.1.1``` with ```cssnano v3.10.0``` and ```cssnano-preset-advanced v4.0.0-rc.2```,

- Running on ```express`v4.14.1```

- With ```forever v0.15.3```

- And gzip ```compression v1.7.0```

- 100% code coverage using ```mocha v3.5.2```, ```chai v4.1.2```, ```supertest v3.0.0``` and ``` "nyc 11.2.1"```,



## Resources

- [https://enable-cors.org](https://enable-cors.org)

- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing)

- [https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors)



## License

Licensed under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).



Copyright (c) 2016 - 2021 Martin Krause  [http://martinkr.github.io](http://martinkr.github.io)