What is CORS Unblock?
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This extension bypasses the "XMLHttpRequest" and "fetch" rejections by altering the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" and "Access-Control-Allow-Methods" headers for every request that the browser receives. You can activate the extension by pressing the action button. Also, use the right-click context menu over the action button to modify which headers the extension manipulates. You can also ask the extension not to overwrite these headers when the server returns values for them.
The default values for the headers:
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: request initiator or empty Access-Control-Allow-Methods": GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK Access-Control-Allow-Methods: request initiator or empty Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Expose-Headers: request initiator or *
Additional Features:
It can remove the following CSP-related headers: "Content-Security-Policy", "Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only", "X-WebKit-CSP" and "X-Content-Security-Policy".
It can overwrite the returned 4xx status code from the server. Use this feature when a server does not support a method, but you want to pretend it does.
User reviews
- Works well for local development and allows parsing of HTTP responses.
- Simple to use and effective for avoiding CORS errors.
- Helpful for Chrome extension developers.
- Inconsistent performance; some users report it not working.
- Issues with CORS headers when using insecure requests (http).
- Has bugs related to specific configurations like 'credentials' in fetch requests.
- Not working for some users.
- Works fine for local development.
- Helpful in bypassing CORS errors.
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CORS Unblock requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
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CORS Unblock has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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