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by tomjen3 5186 days ago
I would like to know one thing.

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to allow crossdomain XmlHttpRequests? Given that the standard say that post is for modification no other website should ever make thoes requsts.

1 comments

The CORS standard for 'simple' POSTs is no different than what you can already submit via a form from a technological perspective. In that way, it actually makes a lot of sense.

And the whole point of CORS is that some websites do want to make those requests. ;-)