Access-Control-Allow-Methods header

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTTP Access-Control-Allow-Methods response header specifies one or more HTTP request methods allowed when accessing a resource in response to a preflight request.

Header type Response header
Forbidden request header No

Syntax

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Access-Control-Allow-Methods: <method>, <method>, …
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: *

Directives

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<method>

A comma-separated list of the allowed request methods. GET, HEAD, and POST are always allowed, regardless of whether they are specified in this header, as they are defined as CORS-safelisted methods.

* (wildcard)

All HTTP methods. It has this meaning only for requests without credentials (requests without HTTP cookies or HTTP authentication information). In requests with credentials, it is treated as the literal method name * without special semantics.

Examples

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Access-Control-Allow-Methods: PUT, DELETE
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: *

Specifications

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Specification
Fetch
# http-access-control-allow-methods

Browser compatibility

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See also

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