CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin despite correct headers

Question

I am trying to set up simple Cross-Origin Resource Sharing using jQuery (1.7.1) powered ajax on the client and apache served python (django) server. According to all the in

Answer 1

You have to implement a "pre-flighted" request and response because your situation counts as a "not so simple" request. Basic CORS, that only requires the Origin header, can only have content types of "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "multipart/form-data", and "text/plain". Since you return "application/json", you don't meet this requirement.

I don't know anything about Django, but I found it easier to implement CORS support outside of my application through the use of a Tomcat filter. It looks like you can do the same thing with Django.

2013-08-11: It looks like the GitHub repo is no longer with us. But the Django package looks to still be available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-cors/0.1