CORS Headers for updates.drupal.org
> [!note] Migrated issue
>
> <!--Drupal.org comment-->
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> <!--Migrated from issue #3417570.-->
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> Reported by: [seanmorris227](https://www.drupal.org/user/2880577)
### Problem/Motivation
I'm running Drupal 7 under php-wasm in the browser, and I've implemented a custom HTTP request function. The issue I'm having is that when a request is made to [https://updates.drupal.org/...](https://updates.drupal.org/release-history/drupal/7.x?site_key=Pkb-JZK8dh2wUE3jKXZ0oRW6haYw90CI-Q_Hma5vfRo&version=7.95&list=block%2Ccolor%2Ccomment%2Ccontextual%2Cdashboard%2Cdblog%2Cfield%2Cfield_sql_storage%2Cfield_ui%2Cfile%2Cfilter%2Chelp%2Cimage%2Clist%2Cmenu%2Cnode%2Cnumber%2Coptions%2Coverlay%2Cpath%2Crdf%2Csearch%2Cshortcut%2Csystem%2Ctaxonomy%2Ctext%2Ctoolbar%2Cupdate%2Cuser%2Cbartik%2Cseven "https://updates.drupal.org/...") URLs, there are no CORS headers on the response, so the request fails.
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<!--?php\
$conf\['drupal_http_request_function'\] = 'vrzno_http_request';\
\
function vrzno_http_request($url, array $options = array()) {\
$uri = @parse_url($url);\
\
$result = new stdClass();\
\
if ($uri == FALSE) {\
$result-\-->
<span dir="">error = 'unable to parse URL';\\\\\\\\ $result-\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\>code = -1001;\\\\\\\\ return $result;\\\\\\\\ }\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\ // Merge the default options.\\\\\\\\ $options += array(\\\\\\\\ 'headers' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> array(),\\\\\\\\ 'method' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> 'GET',\\\\\\\\ 'data' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> NULL,\\\\\\\\ 'max_redirects' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> 3,\\\\\\\\ 'timeout' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> 30.0,\\\\\\\\ 'context' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> NULL,\\\\\\\\ 'scheme' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> 'http',\\\\\\\\ );\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\ // Merge the default headers.\\\\\\\\ $options\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\['headers'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] += array(\\\\\\\\ 'User-Agent' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> 'Drupal (+http://drupal.org/)',\\\\\\\\ );\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\ $request = (new Vrzno)-\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\>fetch($url, (object)\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\[\\\\\\\\ 'headers' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> (object) $options\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\['headers'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\],\\\\\\\\ 'method' =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\> $options\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\['method'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\],\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\]);\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\ $response = vrzno_await($request);\\\\\\\\ $content = vrzno_await($response-\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\>text());\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\ $result-\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\>data = $content;\\\\\\\\ $result-\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\>code = 200;\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\ return $result;\\\\\\\\ }\\\\\\\\ ?\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\></span>
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</div>\\\\#### Steps to reproduce
1) Make a request to [https://updates.drupal.org/...](https://updates.drupal.org/release-history/drupal/7.x?site_key=Pkb-JZK8dh2wUE3jKXZ0oRW6haYw90CI-Q_Hma5vfRo&version=7.95&list=block%2Ccolor%2Ccomment%2Ccontextual%2Cdashboard%2Cdblog%2Cfield%2Cfield_sql_storage%2Cfield_ui%2Cfile%2Cfilter%2Chelp%2Cimage%2Clist%2Cmenu%2Cnode%2Cnumber%2Coptions%2Coverlay%2Cpath%2Crdf%2Csearch%2Cshortcut%2Csystem%2Ctaxonomy%2Ctext%2Ctoolbar%2Cupdate%2Cuser%2Cbartik%2Cseven "https://updates.drupal.org/...") or any other URL on that API
2) Observe that there are currently no CORS headers on the response.
### Proposed resolution
The resolution would have the following headers to the response:
**For `https://updates.drupal.org/*` & `https://packages.drupal.org/*`**
```
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag
Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin
Timing-Allow-Origin: *
```
**For `https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/*`**
```
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Accept-Ranges, Content-Range, Content-Disposition
Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin
Timing-Allow-Origin: *
```
OPTIONS for all 3 above:
```
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400
Cache-Control: public, max-age=86400
```
max-age=86400 can be lowered while in QA.
**For `https://www.drupal.org/jsonapi/*`**
Further evaluation will be needed, as this does accept session cookies. Original request is:
```
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
```
### Remaining tasks
Just the headers, please.
### User interface changes
None.
### API changes
CORS headers to allow any origin to access [https://updates.drupal.org/...](https://updates.drupal.org/release-history/drupal/7.x?site_key=Pkb-JZK8dh2wUE3jKXZ0oRW6haYw90CI-Q_Hma5vfRo&version=7.95&list=block%2Ccolor%2Ccomment%2Ccontextual%2Cdashboard%2Cdblog%2Cfield%2Cfield_sql_storage%2Cfield_ui%2Cfile%2Cfilter%2Chelp%2Cimage%2Clist%2Cmenu%2Cnode%2Cnumber%2Coptions%2Coverlay%2Cpath%2Crdf%2Csearch%2Cshortcut%2Csystem%2Ctaxonomy%2Ctext%2Ctoolbar%2Cupdate%2Cuser%2Cbartik%2Cseven "https://updates.drupal.org/...") URLs.
### Data model changes
None.
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