# Go CORS handler [![godoc](http://img.shields.io/badge/godoc-reference-blue.svg?style=flat)](https://godoc.org/github.com/rs/cors) [![license](http://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-red.svg?style=flat)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rs/cors/master/LICENSE) [![build](https://img.shields.io/travis/rs/cors.svg?style=flat)](https://travis-ci.org/rs/cors) [![Coverage](http://gocover.io/_badge/github.com/rs/cors)](http://gocover.io/github.com/rs/cors)
CORS is a `net/http` handler implementing [Cross Origin Resource Sharing W3 specification](http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/) in Golang.
## Getting Started
After installing Go and setting up your [GOPATH](http://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH), create your first `.go` file. We'll call it `server.go`.
```go
package main
import (
"net/http"
"github.com/rs/cors"
)
func main() {
mux := http.NewServeMux()
mux.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
This library has been modified to avoid a well known security issue when configured with `AllowedOrigins` to `*` and `AllowCredentials` to `true`. Such setup used to make the library reflects the request `Origin` header value, working around a security protection embedded into the standard that makes clients to refuse such configuration. This behavior has been removed with [#55](https://github.com/rs/cors/issues/55) and [#57](https://github.com/rs/cors/issues/57).
If you depend on this behavior and understand the implications, you can restore it using the `AllowOriginFunc` with `func(origin string) {return true}`.
Please refer to [#55](https://github.com/rs/cors/issues/55) for more information about the security implications.
// Enable Debugging for testing, consider disabling in production
Debug: true,
})
// Insert the middleware
handler = c.Handler(handler)
```
* **AllowedOrigins** `[]string`: A list of origins a cross-domain request can be executed from. If the special `*` value is present in the list, all origins will be allowed. An origin may contain a wildcard (`*`) to replace 0 or more characters (i.e.: `http://*.domain.com`). Usage of wildcards implies a small performance penality. Only one wildcard can be used per origin. The default value is `*`.
* **AllowOriginFunc** `func (origin string) bool`: A custom function to validate the origin. It take the origin as argument and returns true if allowed or false otherwise. If this option is set, the content of `AllowedOrigins` is ignored
* **AllowedMethods** `[]string`: A list of methods the client is allowed to use with cross-domain requests. Default value is simple methods (`GET` and `POST`).
* **AllowedHeaders** `[]string`: A list of non simple headers the client is allowed to use with cross-domain requests.
* **ExposedHeaders** `[]string`: Indicates which headers are safe to expose to the API of a CORS API specification
* **AllowCredentials** `bool`: Indicates whether the request can include user credentials like cookies, HTTP authentication or client side SSL certificates. The default is `false`.
* **MaxAge** `int`: Indicates how long (in seconds) the results of a preflight request can be cached. The default is `0` which stands for no max age.
* **OptionsPassthrough** `bool`: Instructs preflight to let other potential next handlers to process the `OPTIONS` method. Turn this on if your application handles `OPTIONS`.
* **Debug** `bool`: Debugging flag adds additional output to debug server side CORS issues.
See [API documentation](http://godoc.org/github.com/rs/cors) for more info.