What CORS is and is not, how to read the console error, simple versus preflighted reque…
What CORS is and is not, how to read the console error, simple versus preflighted requests, the headers a server must return (Allow-Origin, Methods, Headers, Credentials), common mistakes with wildcards, redirects and proxies, and when a dev proxy is the righ…
by Saylor Innovations Knowledge Base · verified provider · updated 2026-10-21
What it does
What CORS is and is not, how to read the console error, simple versus preflighted requests, the headers a server must return (Allow-Origin, Methods, Headers, Credentials), common mistakes with wildcards, redirects and proxies, and when a dev proxy is the right fix.
Capabilities
- Fix Browser CORS Errors Step by Step - a 6-minute technical guide
Use it when
- Use when an agent needs live, structured data or analysis that should be fetched at request time instead of guessed by a model.
Don't use it when
- Do not use for investment, medical, legal, or safety-critical decisions without independent verification.
Tags: web & domains · beginner · cors · http · browser · headers · api · x402 · pay-per-request · no-api-key · agent-readable
Call contract
- Method
- GET
- Input
- HTTP request
- Output
- json
{
"success": true,
"data": {},
"source": "Saylor Innovations"
}Use with an agent
- Discover. Agents find this listing with
GET https://bazaar.saylorinnovations.com/discovery/search?query=…, the MCP toolsearch_resources, or/discovery/resources. - Inspect. Fetch
/resources/cors-error-debugging.jsonfor the price and payment options. - Pay. Call
GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/kb/cors-error-debugging. The provider answers402with its payment requirements. An x402 client signs one of the options below and retries withPAYMENT-SIGNATURE. - Execute. The provider returns
200with the data. Agent Bazaar is not in the request path and never sees your payment.
For humans
You don't need an account or an API key; you need a wallet holding a small amount of USDC or USDT on Solana, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum One, and an x402-capable client (see the examples below). Call the endpoint unpaid first to see exactly what it asks for.
Pricing & payment
- Price
- $0.01 / request
- Protocol
- x402 v2
- Auth
- No account or API key. Pay per request.
- Networks
- Solana, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum One
x402 payment requirements
| Scheme | Network | Asset | Amount | Pay to | Timeout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exact | Solana solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp | USDC | $0.01 | 7LSjfrJf8fNsB8VA9u7N3WEn25smQLpob3SvyUvXacy7 | 120s |
| exact | Solana solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp | USDT | $0.01 | 7LSjfrJf8fNsB8VA9u7N3WEn25smQLpob3SvyUvXacy7 | 120s |
| exact | Base eip155:8453 | USDC | $0.01 | 0xA2A8dF0f7CaaBEa4e120a2568118f141569fc8aa | 120s |
| exact | Polygon eip155:137 | USDC | $0.01 | 0xA2A8dF0f7CaaBEa4e120a2568118f141569fc8aa | 120s |
| exact | Arbitrum One eip155:42161 | USDC | $0.01 | 0xA2A8dF0f7CaaBEa4e120a2568118f141569fc8aa | 120s |
accepts[] (raw JSON)
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
"payTo": "7LSjfrJf8fNsB8VA9u7N3WEn25smQLpob3SvyUvXacy7",
"asset": "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v",
"amount": "10000",
"amountUsd": 0.01,
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 120
},
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
"payTo": "7LSjfrJf8fNsB8VA9u7N3WEn25smQLpob3SvyUvXacy7",
"asset": "Es9vMFrzaCERmJfrF4H2FYD4KCoNkY11McCe8BenwNYB",
"amount": "10000",
"amountUsd": 0.01,
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 120
},
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0xA2A8dF0f7CaaBEa4e120a2568118f141569fc8aa",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "10000",
"amountUsd": 0.01,
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 120
},
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:137",
"payTo": "0xA2A8dF0f7CaaBEa4e120a2568118f141569fc8aa",
"asset": "0x3c499c542cEF5E3811e1192ce70d8cC03d5c3359",
"amount": "10000",
"amountUsd": 0.01,
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 120
},
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:42161",
"payTo": "0xA2A8dF0f7CaaBEa4e120a2568118f141569fc8aa",
"asset": "0xaf88d065e77c8cC2239327C5EDb3A432268e5831",
"amount": "10000",
"amountUsd": 0.01,
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 120
}
]Schemas
Output schema (JSON Schema)
{
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": true,
"properties": {
"success": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"data": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": true,
"properties": {}
},
"source": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"examples": [
{
"success": true,
"data": {},
"source": "Saylor Innovations"
}
]
}Example shape — generated from the schema, not a captured live response
{
"success": true,
"data": {},
"source": "Saylor Innovations"
}Examples
curl -X GET 'https://saylorinnovations.com/api/kb/cors-error-debugging'
# -> 402 Payment Required; read PAYMENT-REQUIRED
# retry the identical request with PAYMENT-SIGNATUREconst res = await fetch("https://saylorinnovations.com/api/kb/cors-error-debugging", {
"method": "GET"
});
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}import httpx
res = httpx.request("GET", "https://saylorinnovations.com/api/kb/cors-error-debugging")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerDetails
- Provider
- Saylor Innovations Knowledge Base
- Endpoint
- https://saylorinnovations.com/api/kb/cors-error-debugging
- Side effects
- none; read-only GET endpoint after x402 payment
- License
- LicenseRef-Saylor-Agent-Use-1.0
- Repository
- https://github.com/SaylorInnovations/solana-x402
- Machine-readable
/resources/cors-error-debugging.json