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Rajesh Gunasundaram
Rajesh Gunasundaram
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Rajesh Gunasundaram

Rajesh Gunasundaram is a software architect, technical writer and blogger. He has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than 12 years using Microsoft .NET, 2 years of BizTalk Server and a year of iOS application development. Rajesh is a founder and editor of technical blogs programmerguide and ioscorner and you can find many of his technical writings on .Net and iOS. He is also the founder and developer of VideoLens, a platform that analyses videos uploaded in Facebook pages and YouTube channels. Rajesh has also written four other books for Packt publishing. Rajesh worked on client premises located at various countries such as UK, Belarus and Norway. He also has experience in developing mobile applications for iPhone and iPad. His technical strengths include Azure, Xamarin, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, WCF, .Net Framework / .Net Core, C#, Objective-C, Angular, Bot Framework, BizTalk, SQL Server, REST, SOA, Design Patterns and Software Architecture. Rajesh is an early adopter of Angular since AngularJS. He has developed Rich interfaces using Angular, Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3. He has good experience in translation of designer mock-ups and wireframes into an AngularJS front-end. Good at unit testing Angular applications with Karma. Expertise in handling RESTful services in Angular. Supporting various web products developed using AngularJS and Angular.
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CORS in Joomla!


To enable CORS in Joomla!, you need to add the standard CORS header(s). There are a few ways to add the header(s), which are covered in the following sections.

setHeader in JApplication web

Since Joomla! version 11.4, the core method to set headers is setHeader in the base class JapplicationWeb, which can be used to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header and can be used to set other headers.

The following example allows access from all domains with the wildcard:

setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*', true) : \JApplicationWeb

You may find discussions regarding the use of JResponse::setHeader for CORS in Joomla!; however, it has been deprecated since Joomla! Version 11.4. Use setHeader in the base class JApplicationWeb instead.

matware-libraries on GitHub

Although we could not find any Joomla! extensions available to configure allowed origins from the web admin, there is a project on GitHub named matware-libraries, which adds the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. Matware...

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Rajesh Gunasundaram

Rajesh Gunasundaram is a software architect, technical writer and blogger. He has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than 12 years using Microsoft .NET, 2 years of BizTalk Server and a year of iOS application development. Rajesh is a founder and editor of technical blogs programmerguide and ioscorner and you can find many of his technical writings on .Net and iOS. He is also the founder and developer of VideoLens, a platform that analyses videos uploaded in Facebook pages and YouTube channels. Rajesh has also written four other books for Packt publishing. Rajesh worked on client premises located at various countries such as UK, Belarus and Norway. He also has experience in developing mobile applications for iPhone and iPad. His technical strengths include Azure, Xamarin, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, WCF, .Net Framework / .Net Core, C#, Objective-C, Angular, Bot Framework, BizTalk, SQL Server, REST, SOA, Design Patterns and Software Architecture. Rajesh is an early adopter of Angular since AngularJS. He has developed Rich interfaces using Angular, Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3. He has good experience in translation of designer mock-ups and wireframes into an AngularJS front-end. Good at unit testing Angular applications with Karma. Expertise in handling RESTful services in Angular. Supporting various web products developed using AngularJS and Angular.
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