Why is there no preflight in CORS for POST requests with standard content-type
问题 I'm a bit confused about the security aspects of CORS POST requests. I know there is a lost of information about this topic online, but I couldn't find a definite answer to my questions. If I understood it correctly, the goal of the same-origin policy is to prevent CSRF attacks and the goal of CORS is to enable resource sharing if (and only if) the server agrees to share its data with applications hosted on other sites (origins). HTTP specifies that POST requests are not 'safe', i.e. they