reorx
6/5/2010 - 5:47 PM

Middlware to allow's your django server to respond appropriately to cross domain XHR (postMessage html5 API).

Middlware to allow's your django server to respond appropriately to cross domain XHR (postMessage html5 API).

import re

from django.utils.text import compress_string
from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers

from django import http

try:
    import settings 
    XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = settings.XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS
    XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS = settings.XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS
except:
    XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = '*'
    XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS = ['POST','GET','OPTIONS', 'PUT', 'DELETE']


class XsSharing(object):
    """
        This middleware allows cross-domain XHR using the html5 postMessage API.
         

        Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://foo.example
        Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE
    """
    def process_request(self, request):

        if 'HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_METHOD' in request.META:
            response = http.HttpResponse()
            response['Access-Control-Allow-Origin']  = XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS 
            response['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = ",".join( XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS ) 
            
            return response

        return None

    def process_response(self, request, response):
        # Avoid unnecessary work
        if response.has_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin'):
            return response

        response['Access-Control-Allow-Origin']  = XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS 
        response['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = ",".join( XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS )

        return response