From 27c06a6e0699f92bcd02b9e930dc8191ab87305e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Michael[tm] Smith" Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:25:03 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Drop Origin & Accept from Access-Control-Allow-Headers value (#10114) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * Drop Origin & Accept from Access-Control-Allow-Headers value This change drops the Origin and Accept header names from the value of the Access-Control-Allow-Headers response header sent by Synapse. Per the CORS protocol, it’s not necessary or useful to include those header names. Details: Per-spec at https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#forbidden-header-name, Origin is a “forbidden header name” set by the browser and that frontend JavaScript code is never allowed to set. So the value of Access-Control-Allow-Headers isn’t relevant to Origin or in general to other headers set by the browser itself — the browser never ever consults the Access-Control-Allow-Headers value to confirm that it’s OK for the request to include an Origin header. And per-spec at https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#cors-safelisted-request-header, Accept is a “CORS-safelisted request-header”, which means that browsers allow requests to contain the Accept header regardless of whether the Access-Control-Allow-Headers value contains "Accept". So it’s unnecessary for the Access-Control-Allow-Headers to explicitly include Accept. Browsers will not perform a CORS preflight for requests containing an Accept request header. Related: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3225 Signed-off-by: Michael[tm] Smith --- changelog.d/10114.misc | 1 + synapse/http/server.py | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 changelog.d/10114.misc diff --git a/changelog.d/10114.misc b/changelog.d/10114.misc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..808548f7c --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/10114.misc @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Drop Origin and Accept from the value of the Access-Control-Allow-Headers response header. diff --git a/synapse/http/server.py b/synapse/http/server.py index 845651e60..efbc6d5b2 100644 --- a/synapse/http/server.py +++ b/synapse/http/server.py @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ def set_cors_headers(request: Request): ) request.setHeader( b"Access-Control-Allow-Headers", - b"Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization, Date", + b"X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Authorization, Date", )