CORS with WebAPI for XmlHttpRequest

Question

Just wanted to know what is the best elegant way (currently available) to handle CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) in ASP.NET WebAPI so i can use XmlHtt

Answer 1

There is now CORS support in the nightly of web api

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yaohuang1/archive/2013/04/05/try-out-asp.net-web-api-cors-support-using-the-nightly-builds.aspx

Use nuget to:

• Uninstall the Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.FixedDisplayModes package.
• Install Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Cors package from the nightly builds

Then fix the bindings in the web.config Then enable CORS

config.EnableCors(new EnableCorsAttribute()) 

Read more about it on this wiki https://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=CORS%20support%20for%20ASP.NET%20Web%20API&referringTitle=Specs

Edit 19-04-2013 Scott Guthrie has blogged about it: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/04/19/asp-net-web-api-cors-support-and-attribute-based-routing-improvements.aspx