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		ralusek 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Developers don't understand CORS (2019) My understanding was it was an OPTIONS preflight request that is made.
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9dev 4 days ago [–]

Only for complex requests, and even then - a naive implementation of a web application that executes actions on GET requests might do the same for a HEAD request too.

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