Enabling CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) in API Gateway in AWS is crucial for controlling how your API is accessed from different origins, particularly web browsers. CORS is a security feature that allows you to specify which domains are permitted to access your API. It’s especially important for APIs that are called from web applications hosted on a different domain than the API itself.
Why Enable CORS:
- Browser Security: Modern web browsers enforce the same-origin policy, which prevents a web page from making requests to a different domain than the one that served the web page. CORS is a way for the server to tell the browser that it’s okay to allow a request from a different origin.
- Control Access: CORS allows you to specify which domains can access your API, giving you control over the consumption of your API resources.
- Avoid CORS Errors: Without proper CORS settings, browsers will block frontend applications from receiving responses from your API, leading to CORS errors.
- API Testing and Development: During development, your frontend and backend might be hosted on different servers (e.g., localhost for frontend and a separate domain for API), necessitating CORS for seamless integration testing.
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