Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing — What went wrong?
The response to the {{Glossary("CORS")}} request is missing the required {{HTTPHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin")}} header, which is used to determine whether or not the resource can be accessed by content operating within the current origin.
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The response to the {{Glossary("CORS")}} request is missing the required {{HTTPHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin")}} header, which is used to determine whether or not the resource can be accessed by content operating within the current origin.
If the server is under your control, add the origin of the requesting site to the set of domains permitted access by adding it to the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header's value.
For example, to allow a site at to access the resource using CORS, the header should be
You can also configure a site to allow any site to access it by using the wildcard. You should only use this for public APIs. Private APIs should never use , and should instead have a specific domain or domains set. In addition, the wildcard only works for requests made with the crossorigin attribute set to anonymous, and it prevents sending credentials like cookies in requests.
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