A CORS proxy in a container (Docker) for when you need to Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *!
If you need permissive CORS for a front-end project, simply deploy this container and proxy your HTTP requests through it.
Once the container is running, you may navigate to http://container-address:3000/https://jacob.uk.com, cors-container will then proxy the specified resource and transform the original headers to be CORS permissive, whilst keeping origional headers in-tact.
If you intend to use this in production over the open web, ensure the service is locked down with restrictive firewall/access permissions, otherwise any content may be proxied over your server.
I suggest implementing proper CORS headers on your resources and using this for development purposes only.
cors-container can rewrite relative URLs to full URLs of the response body you have proxied.
For example if we wish to proxy http://blog.jacob.uk.com/ and cors-container is runinnng on http://localhost:3000/ the request URL would be http://localhost:3000/http://blog.jacob.uk.com/.
cors-container will rewrite any relative URLs it finds in the proxies response body. For example <a href="/css/style.css"> would be modified to <a href="http://localhost:3000/http://blog.jacob.uk.com/css/style.css"> in the proxied response.
This can be useful if you wish to be able to pull additional assets on a page through the proxy such as stylesheets and JavaScript.
This is not enabled by default as this option mutates the original response body.
Set rewrite-urls in the request header to cors-cotainer if you want relative URLs rewriting.
$ docker pull imjacobclark/cors-container
$ docker run --restart=always -d -p 3000:3000 --name cors-container imjacobclark/cors-container$ git pull https://github.com/imjacobclark/cors-container.git && cd cors-container
$ docker build -t cors-container
$ docker run --restart=always -d -p 3000:3000 --name cors-container cors-container$ git pull https://github.com/imjacobclark/cors-container.git && cd cors-container
$ npm run test && npm start