Access-Control-Allow-Origin on chrome extension

Question

I\'m making a Chrome extension which pulls data from my own server. It uses about 4 httpRequests at a time, but sometimes I get console error as follows:

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Answer 1

Chrome Extensions have two "modes" when making cross-domain XHR requests:

1) If the domain is in the "permissions" section of the manifest.json file - The request doesn't have an "Origin" header, and it always succeeds.

2) If the domain is not in "permissions" - The request includes an "Origin" header with the value "chrome-extension://..." This indicates that the request is a CORS request, and the response must have a valid Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in order to succeed.