Handling the HTTP method OPTIONS

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Hi!

I am implementing an API and sometimes the frontend is sending a request with the HTTP method OPTIONS (OPTIONS - HTTP | MDN)

If I understand the specification correctly, you are supposed to return in the header what other methods are supported for that specific endpoint.

My question is if there is a preferred way of handling OPTIONS-requests in CakePHP? I couldn’t find anything in the documentation about that.

Right now I add OPTIONS to the setMethods() function for the endpoint in routes.php and handle the OPTIONS request in the controller action. It works, but it feels like there must be a better way of handling the OPTIONS method in CakePHP.

How do you handle OPTIONS?

Thank you!

(I’m using CakePHP 4.2)

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Most of the time OPTIONS method is used for CORS.

Use cakephp-cors plugin or cors-middleware for example

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