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When will Mozilla finally fix that bug that doesn't pass "Origin" in the Ajax header when POSTing to an API with JSON?

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Javadewd
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Hello, y'all. I love that I can perform a CORS Ajax POST to my API, but alas in Firefox for Android (Gecko/68), it is the only browser in existence that won't send the "Origin" in the header to my server, and causes my CORS call to die a miserable death. Even the desktop version of Firefox allows this, and I had no problems with Chrome, Mobile Chrome, Safari, IE, Edge, Opera... Why so stingy? I found a 9 year old thread talking about how developers kept going back and forth with this over some security issue (mainly pre-stating the origin manually in the header, or some sort of spoofing), but this seems like a real no-brainer here. Can anybody explain why I now have to exclude Firefox for Android as a useful browser to view this app?

Hello, y'all. I love that I can perform a CORS Ajax POST to my API, but alas in Firefox for Android (Gecko/68), it is the only browser in existence that won't send the "Origin" in the header to my server, and causes my CORS call to die a miserable death. Even the desktop version of Firefox allows this, and I had no problems with Chrome, Mobile Chrome, Safari, IE, Edge, Opera... Why so stingy? I found a 9 year old thread talking about how developers kept going back and forth with this over some security issue (mainly pre-stating the origin manually in the header, or some sort of spoofing), but this seems like a real no-brainer here. Can anybody explain why I now have to exclude Firefox for Android as a useful browser to view this app?

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Paul
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Hi

I must admit that I do not fully understand the issue you are having, but I recommend that you try the new Firefox Preview browser from the Google Play store as this is the focus of our developers going forwards.

Javadewd
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Hmm... Downloaded Firefox Preview from the Google Play Store. It won't even run my jQuery scripts. Is there some sort of Add On, or is this "the focus of [your] developers going forward?"

Paul
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Hi

Do you have an example of a page where these scripts are not running?