Deadly CORS when http://localhost is the origin

Question

I am stuck with this CORS problem, even though I set the server (nginx/node.js) with the appropriate headers.

I can see in Chrome Network pane -> Response Headers:

Answer 1

Per @Beau's answer, Chrome does not support localhost CORS requests, and there is unlikely any change in this direction.

I use the Allow-Control-Allow-Origin: * Chrome Extension to go around this issue. The extension will add the necessary HTTP Headers for CORS:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: "GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS"
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: 

The source code is published on Github.

Note that the extension filter all URLs by default. This may break some websites (for example: Dropbox). I have changed it to filter only localhost URLs with the following URL filter

*://localhost:*/*