Access-Control-Allow-Headers response header is used in response to a preflight request which includes the
Access-Control-Request-Headers to indicate which HTTP headers can be used during the actual request.
This header is required if the request has an
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: [<header-name>[, <header-name>]*] Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *
The name of a supported request header. The header may list any number of headers, separated by commas.
The value "
*" only counts as a special wildcard value for requests without credentials (requests without HTTP cookies or HTTP authentication information). In requests with credentials, it is treated as the literal header name "
*" without special semantics. Note that the
Authorizationheader can't be wildcarded and always needs to be listed explicitly.
Here's an example of what an
Access-Control-Allow-Headers header might look like. It indicates that a custom header named
X-Custom-Header is supported by CORS requests to the server (in addition to the CORS-safelisted request headers).
This example shows
Access-Control-Allow-Headers when it specifies support for multiple headers.
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Custom-Header, Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
Let's look at an example of a preflight request involving
First, the request. The preflight request is an
OPTIONS request that includes some combination of the three preflight request headers:
OPTIONS /resource/foo Access-Control-Request-Method: GET Access-Control-Request-Headers: Content-Type, x-requested-with Origin: https://foo.bar.org
If the CORS request indicated by the preflight request is authorized, the server will respond to the preflight request with a message that indicates the allowed origin, methods, and headers. Below we see that
Access-Control-Allow-Headers includes the headers that were requested.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 0 Connection: keep-alive Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://foo.bar.org Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, x-requested-with Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400
If the requested method isn't supported, the server will respond with an error.
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