CORS checking with NodeJS

pre-flight-with-restify.js

function unkMH(req, res) {
  var allowHeaders;

  if (req.method.toLowerCase() === 'options') {
    allowHeaders = ['Accept', 'Accept-Version', 'Content-Type', 'Api-Version', 'Authorization'];
    if (res.methods.indexOf('OPTIONS') === -1) {
      res.methods.push('OPTIONS');
    }
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', true);
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', allowHeaders.join(', '));
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', res.methods.join(', '));
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', req.headers.origin);
    return res.send(204);
  } else {
    return res.send(new restify.MethodNotAllowedError());
  }
};

Forked based on (Jose Luis Rivas [email protected]):

I got stuck at one point while calling REST service from my Angular JS code

Capture the OPTIONS requests and send that in the data, don't send it on
all of them.

CORS have something called "preflight" and it's a request sent before
the request you want to do, it's called OPTIONS and looks for that.

On my backends with Express.js and Restify, I just wait at the end of the routes if
something was not called then I put a middleware to check if it's an
OPTIONS method request and if so push back the headers, this was the
prototype I built for someone else that made the same question here last
year: