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June 15, 2026 Engineering

Hardening the open CORS proxy — allowlists, SSRF guards, and the bypass I almost left behind

A year after building an open serverless CORS proxy, I closed the open-relay hole it had become — target and origin allowlists, SSRF guards, a resilience layer — and learned a sharp lesson about a forgotten debug endpoint that Vercel was still routing.

#cors proxy#serverless#vercel#security#ssrf#javascript#tikz
May 4, 2025 Engineering

Building a Serverless CORS Proxy with Vercel - Simplifying Cross-Origin Requests

A practical exploration of building a serverless CORS proxy using Vercel's serverless functions, offering an elegant solution to the common cross-origin resource sharing challenges faced by frontend developers.

#cors proxy#serverless#vercel#javascript#web development
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