enabling cross-origin resource sharing on IIS7

Question

I recently ran into with posting Javascript requests to another domain. By default XHR posting to other domains is not allowed.

Following the instructions from htt

Answer 1

It took Microsoft years to identify the gaps and ship an out-of-band CORS module to solve this problem.

1. Install the module from Microsoft
2. Configure it with snippets

as below

In general, it is much easier than your custom headers and also offers better handling of preflight requests.

In case you need the same for IIS Express, use some PowerShell scripts I wrote.