A resource makes a cross-origin HTTP request when it requests a resource from a domain or port which is different from the one which the first resource itself serves. For example, an HTML page served from http://domain-a.com makes an img src request for http://domain-b.com/image.jpg. Many pages on the web today load resources like CSS stylesheets, images and scripts from separate domains.
For security reasons, browsers restrict cross-origin HTTP requests initiated from within scripts. For example, XMLHttpRequest and Fetch follow the same-origin policy. So, a web application using XMLHttpRequest or Fetch could only make HTTP requests to its own domain. To improve web applications, developers asked browser vendors to allow cross-domain requests.
This video tutorial is all about enabling CORS in Laravel.
1. Add middleware
php artisan make:middleware Cors
return $next($request)
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
2. Register middleware as a route middleware
3. Use middleware in routes which support CORS
