Enabling cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)

Enabling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) allows a server to indicate that other origins can request sub-resources, like scripts and stylesheets, from it. These origins might use a different scheme (HTTP vs HTTPS) or an entirely different domain or port. This guide describes how to add an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, which is sufficient for simple scenarios, and is often useful when using static bucket providers like Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage as an origin.

To enable CORS, set up a custom HTTP header for your service by following the steps below.

1. Log in to the Fastly web interface and click the Configure link.
2. From the service menu, select the appropriate service.
3. Click the Edit configuration button and then select Clone active. The Domains page appears.
4. Click the Content link. The Content page appears.

5. Click the Create header button. The Create a header page appears.

   

6. Fill out the Create a header fields as follows:
   • In the Name field, type a descriptive name for the new header (e.g., CORS S3 Allow). This name is displayed in the Fastly web interface.
   • From the Type menu, select Cache, and from the Action menu, select Set.
   • In the Destination field, type http.Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
   • In the Source field, type "*" to allow requesting code from any origin or specify a single origin location (https://example.com). If specifying an origin, ensure CORS rules are applied in vcl_deliver.
   • Leave the Ignore if set menu and the Priority field set to their default values.
7. Click the Create button. The new header appears on the Content page.
8. Click the Activate button to deploy your configuration changes.

Test it out

Running the command curl -I example.tld/path/to/resource should include similar information to the following in your header:

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Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://example.tld
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Content-Length, Connection, Date...