jargon

Frontend & browser·The network from the browser

the cross-origin POST went straight out with no preflight, because it used a form content type.

Simple request

Also calledCORS-safelisted request

A cross-origin request that avoids preflight because its method and headers are on a safelist — GET, HEAD or POST, with only a few content types and no custom headers. The safelist exists because those requests were already possible before CORS, via forms and image tags. It is why a form-encoded POST reaches the server whether or not CORS is configured, and why CSRF protection cannot rely on the same-origin policy.

Commonly confused with