CORS: Cannot use wildcard in Access-Control-Allow-Origin when credentials flag is true

Question

I have a setup involving

Frontend server (Node.js, domain: localhost:3000) <---> Backend (Django, Ajax, domain: localhost:8000)

Browser <-- webapp <

Answer 1

If you are using express you can use the cors package to allow CORS like so instead of writing your middleware;

var express = require('express')
, cors = require('cors')
, app = express();

app.use(cors());

app.get(function(req,res){ 
  res.send('hello');
});