swicg / swicg/activitypub-api

CORS

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Description

"As a Web client developer, I want to have reliable expectations for CORS for the ActivityPub API, so that I can use API endpoints from the browser without going through a proxy server."

This is one of the hard parts of working with the API right now.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the ActivityPub API endpoints and the issue's browser-use case to identify what CORS behavior currently exists and what expectations are missing. Done means the API's CORS behavior is explicitly defined and reliably supports the intended browser requests without a proxy.

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Assessment

Domain
api, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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