Configuring Bucket CORS

Functions

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a standard mechanism proposed by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and allows cross-origin requests from clients. For standard web page requests, the scripts and contents at one website cannot interact with those at another website due to the existence of the Same Origin Policy (SOP).

OBS allows buckets to store static web resources. The buckets of OBS can serve as website resources if the buckets are properly used (for details, see Configuring Static Website Hosting for a Bucket). A website in OBS can respond to requests of another websites only after CORS is properly configured.

Typical application scenarios are as follows:

  • With the support of CORS, you can use JavaScript and HTML5 to construct web applications and directly access the resources in OBS without the need to use proxy servers for transfer.

  • You can enable the dragging function of HTML 5 to directly upload files to the OBS (with the upload progress displayed) or update the OBS contents using web applications.

  • Hosts external web pages, style sheets, and HTML 5 applications in different origins. Web fonts or pictures on OBS can be shared by multiple websites.

To perform this operation, you must have the PutBucketCORS permission. By default, only the bucket owner can perform this operation. The bucket owner can grant the permission to other users by configuring the bucket policy or user policy.

Request Syntax

PUT /?cors HTTP/1.1
Host: bucketname.obs.region.example.com
Content-Length: length
Date: date
Authorization: authorization
Content-MD5: MD5
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CORSConfiguration>
    <CORSRule>
        <ID>id</ID>
        <AllowedMethod>method</AllowedMethod>
        <AllowedOrigin>origin</AllowedOrigin>
        <AllowedHeader>header</AllowedHeader>
        <MaxAgeSeconds>seconds</MaxAgeSeconds>
        <ExposeHeader>header</ExposeHeader>
    </CORSRule>
</CORSConfiguration>

Request Parameters

This request contains no parameters.

Request Headers

This request uses common headers and CORS request headers. For details, see Table 3 and Table 1.

Table 1 CORS request header

Header

Description

Mandatory

Content-MD5

Base64-encoded 128-bit MD5 digest of the message according to RFC 1864

Type: string

Example: n58IG6hfM7vqI4K0vnWpog==

Yes

Request Elements

In this request body, you must configure the CORS rules for a bucket in XML format. Table 2 describes the specific configuration elements.

Table 2 CORS configuration elements

Element

Description

Mandatory

CORSConfiguration

Root node of CORSRule and its capacity cannot exceed 64 KB.

Type: container

Parent: none

Yes

CORSRule

CORS rules. CORSConfiguration can contain a maximum of 100 rules.

Type: container

Parent: CORSConfiguration

Yes

ID

Unique identifier of a rule. The value can contain a maximum of 255 characters.

Type: string

Parent: CORSRule

No

AllowedMethod

Method allowed by a CORS rule

Type: string

Value options: GET, PUT, HEAD, POST, DELETE

Parent: CORSRule

Yes

AllowedOrigin

Origins that are allowed in the CORS rule. Only English domain names are supported for configuring origins, and regular expressions can be used for matching origins. Each AllowedOrigin allows one wildcard character (*) at most.

Type: string

Parent: CORSRule

Yes

AllowedHeader

Headers that are allowed in a PutBucketCORS request via the Access-Control-Request-Headers header. If a CORS request contains Access-Control-Request-Headers, this request is considered valid only when it matches the configuration of AllowedHeader. The match is based on regular expressions. Each AllowedHeader can contain at most one wildcard (*) and cannot contain spaces.

Type: string

Parent: CORSRule

No

MaxAgeSeconds

The time in seconds that the client can cache CORS responses.

Each CORSRule can contain only one MaxAgeSeconds. It can be set to a negative value.

Type: integer

Parent: CORSRule

No

ExposeHeader

An additional header in CORS responses. The header provides additional information for clients. It cannot contain spaces.

Type: string

Parent: CORSRule

No

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 status_code

Date: date
Content-Length: length

Response Headers

The response to the request uses common headers. For details, see Table 1.

Response Elements

This response contains no elements.

Error Responses

No special error responses are returned. For details about error responses, see Table 2.

Sample Request

PUT /?cors HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.example.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 03:51:52 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:lq7BGoqE9yyhdEwE6KojJ7ysVxU=
Content-MD5: NGLzvw81f/A2C9PiGO0aZQ==
Content-Length: 617

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CORSConfiguration>
  <CORSRule>
    <AllowedMethod>POST</AllowedMethod>
    <AllowedMethod>GET</AllowedMethod>
    <AllowedMethod>HEAD</AllowedMethod>
    <AllowedMethod>PUT</AllowedMethod>
    <AllowedMethod>DELETE</AllowedMethod>
    <AllowedOrigin>www.example.com</AllowedOrigin>
    <AllowedHeader>AllowedHeader_1</AllowedHeader>
    <AllowedHeader>AllowedHeader_2</AllowedHeader>
    <MaxAgeSeconds>100</MaxAgeSeconds>
    <ExposeHeader>ExposeHeader_1</ExposeHeader>
    <ExposeHeader>ExposeHeader_2</ExposeHeader>
  </CORSRule>
</CORSConfiguration>

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF26000001643627112BD03512FC94A4
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABSAAgAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSYi6wLC4bkrvuS9sqnlRjxK2a5Fe3ry
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 03:51:52 GMT
Content-Length: 0