Cross-Origin Resource Sharing on GitHub Pages

Question

Is there a way to enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for a static page hosted on GitHub Pages to allow cross-origin requests in Javascript?

For example, can

Answer 1

What I'm getting from having put in a support ticket a few days ago is that CORS requests to GitHub Pages are perfectly fine.

Getting content from another page, which is what the original post seems to be asking about, means that the other page's server has to have CORS requests set up or otherwise it will block your requests. Typically sites have public APIs to work around this issue if there is a real need to get content from them (e.g., MediaWiki for Wikipedia).