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CORS configuration

CORS configuration

- [Instructor] CORS configuration. As of Spring 6, configuring cross origin resource sharing remains largely the same as previous versions, but new improvements have ensured better flexibility and compliance with modern web standards. Here we'll learn how to configure CORS and Spring MVC, considering current best practices and features. As we have learned in the previous video, we have two configuration options, either global or controller level. For global CORS configuration, this applies default rules across your application for consistent behavior. This is ideal for APIs with uniform CORS policy. For the controller level configuration, this enables more fine grain control, allowing different endpoints to have customized CORS rules. When choosing the right strategy, I'd use global configuration for consistency across most endpoints, and then I'd use controller level configuration when specific endpoints require exceptions or custom rules. Let's look more closely at global CORS…

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