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Why do preflight OPTIONS requests fail with CORS errors even when the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is explicitly returned?

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Why do preflight OPTIONS requests fail with CORS errors even when the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is explicitly returned?
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Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

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MDN CORS preflight request Access-Control-Allow-Origin methods headers credentials status redirect common errors Google ↗
  1. Preflight request - Glossary · developer.mozilla.org
  2. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) - HTTP · developer.mozilla.org
  3. CORS errors - HTTP · developer.mozilla.org

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