How to enable CORS in flask

Question

I am trying to make a cross origin request using jquery but it keeps being reject with the message

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://... No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin ... is therefore not allowed access.

I am using flask, heroku, and jquery

the client code looks like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#submit_contact').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        $.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: 'http://...',
            // data: [
            //      { name: "name", value: $('name').val()},
            //      { name: "email", value: $('email').val() },
            //      { name: "phone", value: $('phone').val()},
            //      { name: "description", value: $('desc').val()}
            //
            // ],
            data:"name=3&email=3&phone=3&description=3",
            crossDomain:true,
            success: function(msg) {
                alert(msg);
            }
        });
    }); 
});

on the heroku side i am using flask and it is like this

from flask import Flask,request
from flask.ext.mandrill import Mandrill
try:
    from flask.ext.cors import CORS  # The typical way to import flask-cors
except ImportError:
    # Path hack allows examples to be run without installation.
    import os
    parentdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
    os.sys.path.insert(0, parentdir)

    from flask.ext.cors import CORS
app = Flask(__name__)

app.config['MANDRILL_API_KEY'] = '...'
app.config['MANDRILL_DEFAULT_FROM']= '...'
app.config['QOLD_SUPPORT_EMAIL']='...'
app.config['CORS_HEADERS'] = 'Content-Type'

mandrill = Mandrill(app)
cors = CORS(app)

@app.route('/email/',methods=['POST'])
def hello_world():
    name=request.form['name']
    email=request.form['email']
    phone=request.form['phone']
    description=request.form['description']

    mandrill.send_email(
        from_email=email,
        from_name=name,
        to=[{'email': app.config['QOLD_SUPPORT_EMAIL']}],
        text="Phone="+phone+"\n\n"+description
    )

    return '200 OK'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

Answer 1

Here is what worked for me when I deployed to Heroku.

http://flask-cors.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Install flask-cors by running - pip install -U flask-cors

from flask import Flask
from flask_cors import CORS, cross_origin
app = Flask(__name__)
cors = CORS(app)
app.config['CORS_HEADERS'] = 'Content-Type'

@app.route("/")
@cross_origin()
def helloWorld():
  return "Hello, cross-origin-world!"