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Comment by ceehex

1 day ago

cors stops the browser from reading the response but the request still gets processed by the server

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dyzone  5 hours ago

Browsers use OPTIONS preflight request to do CORS validation. Servers shouldn't do too much work in an OPTIONS request. Should be a simple if statement, no db operations, which is usually where the bottleneck is.

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