Add support for CORS preflight OPTIONS requests (#2006) #2281
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Issue
Interference API server doesn't support CORS protocol, so it can't handle OPTIONS preflight requests.
Issue #2006 shows a failed fetch request from browser and suggests a possible solution.
This feature is needed because local hosted browser apps can't call the API server, failing with CORS error mentioned in #2006.
Proposed Solution
Implement FastAPI CORSMiddleware handler.
Info: According to FastAPI documentation, if allow_origins is set to ['*'], credentials (Cookies, Authorization headers...) are not allowed, so origins must be specified to comply with fetch() Browser standard.
So I follow this alternative solution Puzzling error with FastAPI's CORS middleware - StackOverflow
and use allow_origin_regex=".*" instead, which sets a correct Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.