S3 returns CORS headers only when the request carries an Origin header matching a rule

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:06.820Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:06.820Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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S3 evaluates the bucket CORS configuration only for requests that include an Origin header. A plain curl -I against the object shows no Access-Control-Allow-Origin even when the configuration is perfect, so test with curl -H 'Origin: https://example.com' -I and compare.

Origin matching is exact string matching on scheme, host and port: https://example.com does not match https://www.example.com or http://example.com, and there is no suffix wildcard other than a leading star in the whole value.

Browser JavaScript can only read response headers listed in ExposeHeaders. ETag is the one that matters, because a browser-side multipart upload needs each part's ETag to complete the upload, and without ExposeHeaders the value reads as null with no error. Preflight OPTIONS requests are only sent for non-simple requests, so a GET can succeed while a PUT with a custom header fails, making the configuration look half-applied.

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/cors.html

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