How to handle preflight CORS requests on a Go server

Question

So I\'m writing this RESTful backend in Go, which will be called with cross-site HTTP requests, i.e. from content served by another site (actually, just another port, but th

Answer 1

Here's a snippet that worked for me:

addCorsHeader(res)
if req.Method == "OPTIONS" {
    res.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
    return
} else {
    h.APIHandler.ServeHTTP(res, req)
}


func addCorsHeader(res http.ResponseWriter) {
    headers := res.Header()
    headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
    headers.Add("Vary", "Origin")
    headers.Add("Vary", "Access-Control-Request-Method")
    headers.Add("Vary", "Access-Control-Request-Headers")
    headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, Origin, Accept, token")
    headers.Add("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST,OPTIONS")
}