daemon help docs for CORS
Convey the basic idea, plus an example. Don't encourage using `*`. This would have saved me some code spelunking.
Jason Carver committed
Jul 2, 2015 at 18:06 UTC
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@@ -68,7 +68,13 @@ in the network, use 0.0.0.0 as the ip address:
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Be careful if you expose the API. It is a security risk, as anyone could control
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your node remotely. If you need to control the node remotely, make sure to protect
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-the port as you would other services or database (firewall, authenticated proxy, etc).`,
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+the port as you would other services or database (firewall, authenticated proxy, etc).
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+In order to explicitly allow Cross-Origin requests, export the root url as
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+environment variable API_ORIGIN. For example, to allow a local server at port 8888,
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+run this then restart the daemon:
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+ export API_ORIGIN="http://localhost:8888/`,
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Options: []cmds.Option{