How can I support cors when using restify

node.js cors restify
Kim picture Kim · Jan 15, 2013 · Viewed 34.7k times · Source

I have a REST api created with the restify module and I want to allow cross-origin resource sharing. What is the best way to do it?

Answer

Stephen Reid picture Stephen Reid · Jan 24, 2013

You have to set the server up to set cross origin headers. Not sure if there is a built in use function or not, so I wrote my own.

server.use(
  function crossOrigin(req,res,next){
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "X-Requested-With");
    return next();
  }
);

I found this from this tutorial. http://backbonetutorials.com/nodejs-restify-mongodb-mongoose/

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