[Doh] notes on CORS and DoH

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Wed, 07 November 2018 11:49 UTC

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Subject: [Doh] notes on CORS and DoH
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I've amended my `doh101` implementation to support cross-origin requests
from browsers.

https://github.com/fanf2/doh101/

DoH GET requests count as "simple requests" from the point of view of
CORS, so they do not require any special support on the server to be
available to any web page. However, because query strings are usually
logged by web servers, DoH GET requests have somewhat worse privacy
properties than POST requests. So it seemed to be worth implementing CORS,
so that POST is available wherever GET is.

What I've done is add `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` to regular DoH
responses, and I added support for OPTIONS requests which reply with:

   Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
   Access-Control-Allow-Methods: OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, POST
   Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
   Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400

It's roughly in line with what Cloudflare does for
https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query
(Except I'm using a longer method list which matches what I return
for 405 method not allowed errors.)

I've had a very brief look at some of the DoH servers listed at
https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#doh-tools
and CORS support seems to be relatively rare.

Tony.
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