CORS-safelisted request header

A CORS-safelisted request header (also known as "simple header") is one of the following HTTP headers:

When containing only these headers (and values that meet the additional requirements laid out below), a request doesn't need to send a preflight request in the context of CORS.

You can safelist more headers using the Access-Control-Allow-Headers header and also list the above headers there to circumvent the following additional restrictions.

Additional restrictions

CORS-safelisted headers must also fulfill the following requirements in order to be a CORS-safelisted request header:

See also